[simonw]

There are plenty of valuable use-cases that aren't at much risk from hallucinations at all:

- Asking it to summarize text

- Using it to extract facts from text and present them in an alternative format - turning a chunk of HTML into JSON for example

- Creative writing - poems, stories etc

- Getting feedback on your own text - asking it what should be tightened up, which bits are confusing and so on

- All kinds of code generation activities

[sarchertech]

> turning a chunk of HTML into JSON for example

I haven't done exactly that, but based on similar examples this is likely very vulnerable to hallucinations.

[simonw]

For simple things it's pretty safe. I tried pasting in HTML from the homepage of Hacker News and having it turn that into a list of JSON objects each with the title, submitter, number of upvotes and number of comments.

Here's a similar trick I did with Copilot: https://til.simonwillison.net/gpt3/reformatting-text-with-co...