Sandra FauconnierDec 4, 2022
I thought, let's try this hyped new https://chat.openai.com/ #openai thing, if it will help us write Wikipedia articles. I asked it to write a #Wikipedia article about a notable Dutch female contemporary #artist who doesn't have any Wikipedia articles yet. The generated article is 100% incorrect. It really gets everything wrong.
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(In terms of structure, the #Wikipedia article sounds pretty OK, except from the last paragraph where there's too much praise / puffery.)

OK, then I asked the bot to add footnotes. All link to nonexistent or wrong pages.

Curious though, what will happen when the algorithm will actually start including content from functional online searches...

Dec 4, 2022 at 11:16amWeb
Show threadJan AinaliDec 4, 2022
@spinster Have you tried asking it not to make things up?
Show threadSandra FauconnierDec 4, 2022
@ainali Great suggestion! With the addition "Only provide correct information", I got an "I am not able to browse the internet to find information about her" (i.e. transparent) answer.
Show threadSandra FauconnierDec 4, 2022

@ainali I then also tried the same with an incredibly well-known artist who has many Wikipedia articles (Leonardo da Vinci). The generated article looks OK (I haven't checked all facts presented there), but the outgoing hyperlinks are still mostly wrong, except for the one pointing to Britannica.

Just asking "Who is ... (name of artist)" produces very similar results by the way. Example: "Who is Yayoi Kusama?"