ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis (www.nature.com)
from stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to technology@lemmy.world on 22 Nov 2023 20:27
https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/648400

Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic.

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SomethingBurger@jlai.lu on 22 Nov 2023 23:48 next collapse

ChatGPT says whatever you ask it to say. More at 11.

PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world on 22 Nov 2023 23:58 collapse

It’s just modeling humans. I was only a lab TA for two semesters, and I caught so many fake data sets.

BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world on 23 Nov 2023 01:07 next collapse

Automation tool does automation.

Kecessa@sh.itjust.works on 23 Nov 2023 02:03 next collapse

There was someone on radio the other day talking about doing research with it for their show and starting by asking a simple math question that it got wrong and then the conversation devolved into ChatGPT inventing anecdotes when asked about if a Nobel medal was ever brought to space and it ending up saying it didn’t know why it kept inventing anecdotes instead of finding reliable info!

All to say, it doesn’t know what is and isn’t reliable information so it builds answers based on what it interprets you might want to read.

Ganbat@lemmyonline.com on 23 Nov 2023 08:03 collapse

So… Software designed to make things up made something up when asked to make something up? Okay…