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by COAGULOPATH 981 days ago
I searched for "David Bowie discography" and got "This topic contains or implies content that falls outside acceptable use guidelines."

Then I searched for "David Bowie". It slowly generated text, section by section. Much of its output was repetitive and slight. It generated a section called "Early Life and Career" and then "Birth and Childhood" with largely similar information. It then abruptly wrapped up the article ("Conclusion: David Bowie's first solo album, "David Bowie" (or "Space Oddity"), was a pivotal release...) with no information about what happened to David Bowie afterward. The actual text had many hallucinations. It said "Space Oddity" was Bowie's first album (it was actually his second), and said the album achieved fame with the Apollo Moon landing in 1972 (which happened in 1969.)

Maybe in a few years something like this will be viable. Right now, it seems inferior to Wikipedia in every aspect.

1 comments

That error you got the first time means your query contains words that triggered the OpenAI content filter.

I agree with the other comments on the hallucinations in the content, hence why I did include a disclaimer at the bottom of every page. This project is something I did to just test out the idea of an encyclopedia-like UI on GPT.