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by yosito 306 days ago
Don't make the mistake of thinking that "knowing" has anything to do with the output of ChatGPT. It gives you the statistically most likely output based on its training data. It's not checking some sort of internal knowledge system, it's literally just outputting statistical linguistic patterns. This technology can be trained to emphasize certain ideas (like propaganda) but it can not be used directly to access knowledge.
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> It's not checking some sort of internal knowledge system

In my case it was consuming online sources, then repeating "information" not actually contained therein. This, at least, is absolutely preventable even without any metacognition to speak of.