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Of course it did - this whole technology is AI hallucinating about facts. This is exactly what the math tells us it will do. It is not a "fact generating" tec

Of course it did - this whole technology is AI hallucinating about facts. This is exactly what the math tells us it will do. It is not a "fact generating" technology - it is a "scaffolding" technology to make it easier to fill in the boilerplate of the answer -- but not the answer itself.

onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago
It's in vogue to hate Google at the moment - so everyone's just going to pretend it doesn't matter that MS had errors sometimes because "something, something Google sucks now."
rany_ 4y ago
> This is exactly what the math tells us it will do. Technically it hallucinates on basic math as well. So a fitting choice of words :)
siva7 4y ago
I don't think that's an accurate description of the current state. It generates facts but those need to be evaluated by experts since tech can error as likely as a human.
jron 4y ago
Just wait until the GPT dataset includes an infinite amount of GPT generated SEO garbage. If you thought searching for relevant data couldn't get any worse, prepare yourself for the post-GPT mass hallucination.
- duskwuff 4y ago
  And if you think that's bad, it's only going to get worse when those GPT-generated SEO sites get indexed by crawlers and fed into future versions of GPT as input.
  - jron 4y ago
    That's exactly what I mean and it is inevitable without halting all non-human verified updates to the dataset going forward. There are two worlds now, pre-GPT and post-GPT. In the pre-GPT world you have human error and in the post-GPT world you have human error and machine error compounding ad infinitum.
    - vorticalbox 4y ago
      Openai released a tool to detect if a text was generated by an ai[0]. They probably already thought about this and are trying to stop it from happening [0] https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier
  - fleddr 4y ago
    Not to mention a rebellious anti-AI counter culture that will intentionally feed it nonsense.

onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago

It's in vogue to hate Google at the moment - so everyone's just going to pretend it doesn't matter that MS had errors sometimes because "something, something Google sucks now."

rany_ 4y ago

> This is exactly what the math tells us it will do. Technically it hallucinates on basic math as well. So a fitting choice of words :)

siva7 4y ago

I don't think that's an accurate description of the current state. It generates facts but those need to be evaluated by experts since tech can error as likely as a human.

jron 4y ago

Just wait until the GPT dataset includes an infinite amount of GPT generated SEO garbage. If you thought searching for relevant data couldn't get any worse, prepare yourself for the post-GPT mass hallucination.

duskwuff 4y ago
And if you think that's bad, it's only going to get worse when those GPT-generated SEO sites get indexed by crawlers and fed into future versions of GPT as input.
- jron 4y ago
  That's exactly what I mean and it is inevitable without halting all non-human verified updates to the dataset going forward. There are two worlds now, pre-GPT and post-GPT. In the pre-GPT world you have human error and in the post-GPT world you have human error and machine error compounding ad infinitum.
  - vorticalbox 4y ago
    Openai released a tool to detect if a text was generated by an ai[0]. They probably already thought about this and are trying to stop it from happening [0] https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier
- fleddr 4y ago
  Not to mention a rebellious anti-AI counter culture that will intentionally feed it nonsense.