J. W. MasonJan 31, 2023
Arin Dube
If Chat GPT can't figure out the actual topic of a highly cited paper in the QJE, and just makes up a different, wrong, description each time, not sure this is going to work out well for helping summarize any literature.
Jan 30, 2023 at 2:25amWeb
Show threadArin DubeJan 30, 2023

Here's the paper and abstract I asked about.

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/134/3/1405/5484905

The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs*

Abstract. We estimate the effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs using 138 prominent state-level minimum wage changes between 1979 and 2016 in the United

OUP Academic
Show threadArin DubeJan 30, 2023
Cc @[email protected]
Show threadRich Stein (he/him)Jan 30, 2023
@arindube ChatGPT absolutely made up an author and attached them to the most generic sounding title for a paper in a query that I gave it (unrelated to economics). I found several papers with similar names, but none with that author, who did not show up on any other papers or books either.
Show threadpengzell.bsky.socialJan 30, 2023
https://typeset.io was designed for this purpose and actually works surprisingly well
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Show threadJohn SchmittJan 31, 2023
@arindube Wow. It's like a self-driving car decided to rob a bank.