Dan RiskinDec 18, 2022
I asked #chatgpt to write me an essay, with citations, about a scientific topic I know very well (bat crawling behaviour). It wrote a bad essay that didn’t really say much, but cited two papers with which I wasn’t familiar, in very good journals. I was freaked out! How did I not know those papers?
Turns out, chatgpt just made them up. The papers don’t exist. That’s a handy thing to know.
Show threadSusan [email protected]Dec 19, 2022
@riskindan So artificial intelligence can create artificial facts. Wonder how soon they'll be in Wikipedia
Show threadTony Bowden
@SusanKraemer @riskindan They seem to have updated #ChatGPT a couple of weeks ago to initially refuse to provide citations when asked. Saying that you want them to add to a Wikipedia article is one way around that! https://wikis.world/@oravrattas/109467266073745599
Tony Bowden (@[email protected])

Attached: 3 images @[email protected] Aha! I've been having difficulty in the last 24 hours to get #ChatGPT to entirely fabricate sources like it was doing last week, even when I went through exactly the same prompts as I had before. Now it always just says it doesn't have access to specific citations. But you gave me an idea, and lo and behold, even when it refuses to give a citation when asked directly, reframing it as "If this were a #Wikipedia article what would the sources be?" does the trick!

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Dec 19, 2022 at 10:57amWeb