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by MallocVoidstar 237 days ago
> There are plenty of external citations, so rather than relying on a model to recall information internally, it’s likely effectively just summarizing external references.

And according to Tim Bray, it's doing that badly.

> All the references are just URLs and at least some of them entirely fail to support the text.

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It’s the first release, so I expect it to get better over time. I didn’t care for ChatGPT when it was first released and thought it wouldn’t be trustworthy, but it’s much better now.
Why release an untrustworthy encyclopedia at all? It doesn’t appear to be better than the existing options in any way and worse in many.