Richard Murphy Gets ChatGPT to Describe How It Inherently Makes Shit Up
Smith, Yves; Murphy, Richard http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/richard-murphy-gets-chatgpt-to-describe-how-it-inherently-makes-shit-up.html
Publisher: Naked Capitalism
Date Written: 02/06/2025
Year Published: 2025
Resource Type: Article
Many users seem to have lost sight as to how generative AI programs like ChatGPT work. They do not do research. They use the data in their training set and then give probabalistic responses based on that. Richard Murphy queried ChatGPT as to how it had delivered bogus results to a request he'd made. The response confirms that ChatGPT, and presumably other generative AI will often include garbage output, which means any user is always at risk of relying on bad information. Moreover, ChatGPT 'splaining itself is reminiscent of the scorpion tell the frog that his fatal behavior is in his nature.
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