I saw a similar report that it makes up academic papers, and so since then I have been fact checking when I use it to find research.. and every paper it has cit

I saw a similar report that it makes up academic papers, and so since then I have been fact checking when I use it to find research.. and every paper it has cited to me has existed. Perhaps it is a question of how relevant the subject you are asking about is? For instance the example that made me dubious was about eating banana peels for medical purposes, quite esoteric and not able to be confirmed by any outside sources. In this case, it seems GPT is familiar with the blog but has fuzzy details that are not corroborated by any other sources. It is a sort of dunning Kruger effect where the AI does not know the limits of it's limits but acts confidently regardless.