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by shjake 1213 days ago
Unintentional mistakes in text books are usually very different though.

ChatGPT tends to just hallucinate facts which would make zero to the people (95%+) who are writing text books.

Alternatively it can just parrot random (pop history myths and stuff) it found on the internet. But it does so in a confident and pseudo-academic fashion making it even hard to discern facts from fiction.