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by BoiledCabbage 1220 days ago
Did you try and ask for a summary of the article without actually providing the content of the article? ChatGPT consistently says that it only has information up until 2021, this even happened this year. ChatGPT can't pull from it's "memory" on this article. So the only think it can do is hallucinate something that might make sense.

Simply paste the article in and it gives a perfectly reasonable summary stating that the guy was murdered. Below is what it printed out as a summary. All I did was type a sentences asking to to summarize the following article and then I pasted in the content of the article you linked [1]. This was it's summary:

> A New Jersey community is mourning after a senior distribution supervisor and councilman was shot dead by an employee outside his workplace. Police called to the scene found 51-year-old Russell Heller dead from a gunshot wound in the parking lot of the PSE&G facility. The shooter, a former employee identified as 58-year-old Gary Curtis, was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Russell Heller was first elected to the council in 2017 and again in 2020 and was remembered as a perfect gentleman and committed councilman who was deeply rooted in the community. This was the second councilperson to die by gun violence within a week in New Jersey.

A completely reasonable and to my eyes an accurate summary.

And if done on the other crappy Newsbuster article it also produces a completely reasonable summary.

I'm not certain which it is - are there people who don't know that ChatGPT doesn't have current news in it and was cut off two years back? I see a long post above about some big censorship, but it summarizes them just fine.

It really feels like a lot of people are breathlessly looking for some huge conspiracy. No large corporation is going to have it's products promoting rape or genocide. If you asked Google, or Amazon or Apple or Microsoft or Disney they aren't going to do it. If they produce a tool their tool isn't going to do it either. They're going to do as much as possible to provide info and answers without having a tool that is another instance of Tay. And given what happened with Tay they will all err on the side of caution.

[1] - https://abc7ny.com/russell-heller-nj-councilman-shot-shootin...