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Well, you have to give the tool a chance. If it can’t even see the text you’re asking about, it’s going to rely on whatever quotes and references it can crib to
by Tycho 1y ago
Well, you have to give the tool a chance. If it can’t even see the text you’re asking about, it’s going to
rely on whatever quotes and references it can crib together from reviews and blogs and comments.
Try it for a text that is in the training data, or the public internet, or can be put into the context window - then it might help.
- KineticLensman 1y agoWell, yes, I'm sure if I uploaded a full text and spent time on the prompts I could get better results, although these might be similar to other students doing the same thing, which might get me a plagiarism fail. My point was that I would be very hesitant to rely on ChatGPT as an assistant in a real literature task. Many of the texts on my Eng Lit course are in copyright, as is all of the module material (the OU's course-specific textbooks). The hallucinations are a real show-stopper.
- Tycho 1y agoYour position seems to be “if you use the tool like a total dumbass, you might get a bad outcome.” Like… maybe use it intelligently?
- stanford_labrat 1y agoOn the topic of hammers: "if you don't hold the hammer at exactly 2.6cm from the end of the handle and strike the nail with 6N of force at an angle of 58 degrees then of course you won't get a good nail strike into the wood. Oh and you must only use acacia sourced from the subtropics". Give me a break, it's a hammer. This is a perfectly normal "use" of ChatGPT and a good example of how a literature student may opt to try and use AI to make their work easier in some way. It also conveniently demonstrates some of the shortcomings of using a LLM for this sort of task. No need to call them a dumbass.