“You Know Nothing Of My Work, ChatGPT”

I asked it about my journalism, and it got nearly every fact wrong

Clive Thompson

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A red road sign reading “WRONG WAY”
Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash

It’s now pretty well-known that large language models have trouble getting facts right.

The folks who design these models like to say that their AI has the tendency to “hallucinate”, though personally I prefer to say that it’s a tendency to “bullshit”. Tools like…

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net