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I’ve seen quite a few posts on Reddit with people asking questions like “Is a Mazda 2 really faster than a Civic Type R?!? ChatGPT told me it is” and it’s some
by wlesieutre 2y ago
I’ve seen quite a few posts on Reddit with people asking questions like “Is a Mazda 2 really faster than a Civic Type R?!? ChatGPT told me it is” and it’s some complete nonsense numbers that could’ve been fact checked in about 5 seconds.
I don’t think the little “ChatGPT might be wrong, you should check” disclaimer is doing very much.
- autoexec 2y agoIt's a good sign that people are even going to reddit and asking for confirmation of something that seemed suspicious to them. Sure, many of them could have googled for those answers themselves, but part of the problem is how unreliable and dishonest Google has become. Reddit sure isn't an ideal place for fact checks. It's full of PR bots and shills, but at least there are still humans commenting and I can't fault people for doing what they can in the best way they know how.
- wlesieutre 2y agoFor every person that asks I imagine there are a bunch that just assume it must be true because the computer told them
- scarface_74 2y agoOr they could have just use ChstGPT and typed “provide citations… https://chatgpt.com/share/679d7f5f-d508-8010-94fa-df9d554b629f https://chatgpt.com/share/679d7f5f-d508-8010-94fa-df9d554b62... (and then I just remembered that the free version doesn’t have web search)