[masukomi]

it already does tell people to go to sites, but it also lies about what's there.

https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt

ChatGPT is a convincing fiction generator. Any facts it produces are purely coincidental.

It's just really good at mansplaining and gaslighting people about things it knows nothing about.

[Bjartr]

Is "mansplain" just being used to mean "explain in a condescending way" in this context?

[tracker1]

I always took "mansplain" to be an explanation taken to be delivered in a condescending way because of the genders of the speaker and receiver in question. The use of the term in and of itself usually saying more about the person using the word than the subject of the offense.

[Bjartr]

> because of the genders of the speaker and receiver in question

That's what I was trying to understand. ChatGPT doesn't have a gender, nor is it aware of the gender of the person talking to it, unless explicitly told. Wouldn't that preclude it from mansplaining?

[v0idzer0]

Google just sends you to random websites where regular humans “mansplain and gaslight”?

ChatGPT is meant to mimic a human. Not be some god like arbtrar of truth. No such entity will ever exist.

[midoridensha]

It doesn't have to be a god-like arbiter of truth, it just needs to use actual facts that it can source, not just make stuff up out of thin air, which is exactly what it does.

I asked it recently about how Fermat's Last Theorem was discussed in Star Trek (referencing the episode where Picard is talking to Riker about how it's never been solved, though in reality it was solved less than 10 years after the episode aired), and it wrote a very convincing answer that was complete BS, making up details in different episodes that didn't actually happen. It's easy to get detailed plot summaries of these episodes from Wikipedia or Memory Alpha, so I'm really curious how ChatGPT got its info, or if it just likes to make things up that sound plausible but are completely wrong. Just for starters, according to ChatGPT, Picard did not talk about Fermat's theorem; Data did!