Laura HowesHere's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.
Buy nothing new@L_howes Seriously?
John Kennedy@L_howes All you need to do now is write the article. That should fix everything up, I think.
@micefearboggis I googled the sentence that was quoted as coming from my article... it looks like a straight copy-paste from a press release from 2021, so I've sent that over instead.
Bornach@L_howes @micefearboggis
Can OpenAI/Microsoft be sued for libel if ChatGPT/Bing accuses you of saying/doing something you never said/did?
Can OpenAI/Microsoft be sued for libel if ChatGPT/Bing accuses you of saying/doing something you never said/did?
Daniel@micefearboggis @L_howes maybe just let chatgpt write the article itself. Otherwise the robot overlords will learn how to get those humans write articles for them. ;)
petur 🔵😶@L_howes it has been giving me URLs to non-existing github repos
maswan@L_howes
A friend of mine at the university library spent quite a bit of time helping a customer trying to find some elusive references, before they said that the "references" came from ChatGPT.
A friend of mine at the university library spent quite a bit of time helping a customer trying to find some elusive references, before they said that the "references" came from ChatGPT.
Gustav Lindqvist
Wanda WhitneySame here. I had to tell the person that the citations didn't exist. Librarians are used to chasing down references. I have had to tell people that a citation they were looking for didn't exist every once in a while. But the potential scale of made up references from tools like #ChatGPT and other #LLM is frightening.
Robotistry@bibliotecaria @maswan @L_howes I wonder if the theme of 2023's bingo card will turn out to revolve around AI breaking the internet by filling it with so much made-up stuff that human trolls can no longer compete?
Robert M. Kelly
Alex Kuiper@L_howes It really should be called ChatPBG - Plausible Bullshit Generator.
Gabrielle GueronI learned that stochastic parrots is the technical term.
Colleges should be using that phrase to help students understand the limitations of it.
@gabigueron @L_howes I recently read an article calling ChatGPT "A blurry JPEG of the Internet" and it made a ton of sense.
ex or current IDF unwelcome@L_howes Johnson will get it to write his book on Shakespeare or nick chuncks from my wife’s doctoral thesis
Melanie Bjornsdottir (she)@L_howes Holy goodness... :(
danmcquillan@L_howes @Andi example of algos making up accusations of benefits fraud https://www.lighthousereports.nl/investigation/the-algorithm-addiction/
@L_howes @Andi an analysis of the political implications of chatgpt (& other llm's) https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html
Guillermo Uria@L_howes Someday someone will write something just to fullfill the IA's invention.
Ed Ross
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Pete Orrall (defunct account)@L_howes Wow, ChatGPT truly shows how much of an unhinged nightmare AI can really be.
Ьλ∂λ@L_howes Once it suggested I use plausible but non-existing functions in the JavaScript standard library...
Osma Suominen
Christopher Mims@L_howes A CEO of a competing AI company recently told me that when people ask ChatGPT about good AI companies, his company's name is one it spits out, which has been driving inbound interest from potential job candidates.
Just an odd detail.
SomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙@L_howes
This is really quite scary. The potential for misinformation is clear, but this is stuff that can affect people's careers.
This is really quite scary. The potential for misinformation is clear, but this is stuff that can affect people's careers.
Barry@L_howes saw this with another author whose work was cited incorrectly by ChatGPT. Pretty worrying
Jeroen van Bergen@L_howes I am instantly reminded of the sorcerer’s apprentice scene in Fantasia. Tools like this can generate so much nonsense that _looks_ plausible, but really is not. Yet another layer of confusion to cut through in search of facts and truth.
Graham Ward@L_howes Yes, I've noticed this trait of ChatGPT. I asked it to compile a bibliography for me thinking it might be a helpful short-cut and something it might be able to do. What a laugh, it creates plausible titles and attaches them to various authors in the subject area.
Abraham Samma@L_howes Yep. Chat GPT will automatically engage in identity forgery or theft if the information exists in the training dataset and if it makes sense. Just another reason to not leave sensitive information lying around on the web. See https://toolsforthought.rocks/@absamma/109879390606671849
Abraham (@absamma@toolsforthought.rocks)
Attached: 1 image Note to self: Chat GPT will shamelessly spill someone else's details and claim it as its own/someone else's if it fits the context of the chat. Automatic identity theft. This is why grounding it is ESSENTIAL. It's a very good bullshitter. --- RT @DaveLeeFT Someone asked ChatGPT if it had a Signal... and it gave him *MY NUMBER*. https://twitter.com/DaveLeeFT/status/1626288109339176962
xs4me2That’s worrying, an AI that is lying basically…
Dry as toast@L_howes it’s not really artificial intelligence, it’s a man-made bullshit generator
iamBullivant@L_howes I've seen that as well. It just makes stuff up. Basically, ChatGPT is truth agnostic.
KLB@L_howes holy shit, that’s terrifying.
The Evil Microwizard@L_howes Wow! 😳 "AI" is really going in all the wrong directions, isn't it...
Aitch - Þei/Þem@L_howes omfg that explains a few emails I’ve received
Riley S. Faelan@L_howes:
— "Omg! I finally get to meet you! ChatGPT has told me so many things about you!"
— 
Literally Spider-man@L_howes that's so fucked
Ellis Pritchard@L_howes Truth is *so* dead now.
Ha! It sounds like the a paper I once evaluated. It had lots of fake but plausible references and I the plagiarized texts it had lifted were on point. It was clearly work of a sophisticated “I’ll write your term paper for pay” service.
(In Venezuela I had no access to plagiarism detectors, except googling every piece of suspect text. The cheaters count on the underpaid professors to not do that).
@gabigueron In a reinforcing biases note, it turned out the sentence/data was lifted from a press release from the guy's own company.
zeemeermin@L_howes a.k.a making stuff up
Sean Murthy
taste of tabooEhm write a wild article with the help of chatGPT and the send.this
Manel Zarrouk
De quoi ChatGPT est-il VRAIMENT capable ? | Ft. Science4All
Richservo 
@L_howes that’s what inference is. It makes up worlds based on user prompt and training weights.
Just Matthew 🙏I was using it yesterday and it gave me information about a book that doesn't seem to have ever existed. It claimed to search the net for a domain I own sand said it was owned by Ron Paul! It took a fair amount of coaxing to get the model to admit these flaws.
Kristen78@L_howes holy crap. That’s nuts.
Matt@L_howes great! We've invented a disinformation bot and integrated it into a search engine.
AKMA@L_howes Prmopted by your post, I asked ChatGPT for references to anything I had published about the Gospel of John (about which I have (I think) published nothing):
@L_howes TBF, I did edit *Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible: A Reader*, but there is no essay in it on 'John and the Ethics of the Johannine Community,' and none of the other alleged articles have any connection to me whatsoever.
Alexander Bochmann@L_howes Adjacent on my recent timeline - someone gets a Signal message because ChatGPT was asked if it's reachable via Signal, and it gave out that person's number: https://mastodon.social/@daveleeFT/109876410735127795
ColesStreetPothole@L_howes And, who on earth is using ChatGPT to write articles in your discipline? What bill of goods is being sold here?!!!
@L_howes and, so, it begins. AI adds a layer of irritation for mankind that couldn’t exist without it. As it is early days, you may be the first. Revel in your anonymous notoriety. You are probably the first of millions of annoyed researchers and writers. We tip our hat to you o mighty one, first amongst us. It gives me something to look forward to.
William Neal@L_howes looking on the bright side people reaching out to you for articles that you didn't write may be a good source of validated ideas for articles that you should write