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> the user asks for what's trending on pinterest, and ChatGPT (in my mockup) shows a little inline warning note with a warning icon that says: "My data is only
by pdonis 3y ago
> the user asks for what's trending on pinterest, and ChatGPT (in my mockup) shows a little inline warning note with a warning icon that says: "My data is only accurate up to September 2021 and I am unable to access or search the internet for more recent information."
But that doesn't address the actual root cause of why ChatGPT is not reliable: that ChatGPT does not actually check anything. If you ask ChatGPT for what's trending on pinterest, not only does it not go check pinterest for what's trending now, it doesn't even go check its training data for pinterest posts to see what was trending as of the latest date in its training data. It just confabulates a response based on the word frequencies in its training data. It literally has no concept of "checking what it says", not even against its own data.
- simonw 3y agoSure, in an ideal world OpenAI would solve that problem instead. It's pretty clear at this point that solving that is really astonishingly difficult - so I'm suggesting a UI band-aid.
- pdonis 3y ago> I'm suggesting a UI band-aid. But what you're suggesting doesn't look like a "band-aid" to me. It looks like more of the same misleading information that ChatGPT's creators have been giving. Your UI message implies that ChatGPT is checking actual pinterest posts for the time period that's included in the training data; but it isn't.