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by jawilson2 703 days ago
I was trying to remember the name of a book series I read as a child in the late 80s/early 90s. I gave ChatGPT part of a title (it had Scorpion and a few other words in the title), a few plot points, and the decade it was published, and asked for an ISBN. It confidently returned a book with Scorpion in the title, a short plot summary, published in 1983, an ISBN, even an author, and it was all entirely made up. It took me a few minutes to realize this when my searches on Amazon and library websites turned up nothing.
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FWIW, you might also try searching https://www.worldcat.org/ , which is a large collection of library catalogs.
Which model did you use? I never get hallucinations like that
If you asked a job candidate the same question, does their wrong response make them a bad candidate for the job ?
If I asked a job candidate any question and they confidently replied with a set of facts that were entirely made up, I would not consider them for any position under any circumstances.
Too bad, you were interviewing a warehouse worker were they don't have to think and just follow what the screens says.