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I feel like the real solution is for people to stop trying to get AI chatbots to answer factual questions, and believing the answers. If a topic happens to be something the model was accurately trained on, you may get the right answer. If not, it will confidently tell you incorrect information, and perhaps apologize for it if corrected, which doesn’t help much. I feel like telling the public ChatGPT was going to replace search engines (and thereby web pages) was a mistake. Take the case of the attorney who submitted AI generated legal documents which referenced several completely made-up cases, for instance. Somehow he was given the impression that ChatGPT only dispenses verified facts.


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