Before trusting an AI to tell you about stuff you don’t know, ask it to tell you about things you’re an expert in.
@kfury I always start by asking 'em about things that I'm the only person to have written about. If it gives a correct answer, it's copyright laundering. If it gives an incorrect answer, then I know the AI is garbage.
@josh @kfury I started off asking chatgpt questions about pgtcl, that I'm currently a significant maintainer for, and its answers sounded like they could be quotes from the manual... but were often as not completely wrong.
@resuna @josh @kfury I asked ChatGPT about myself, and it said that I'm on faculty at a nearby law school, which came as a surprise but will really please my mother.
@msbellows @resuna @josh @kfury I have a name that I know belongs to only one other person in the world. ChatGPT thinks I'm a late 19th-century composer and it attributed an opera to me that a quick google search could find the actual composer of.
@msbellows @resuna @josh @kfury Ironically, I am modestly famous. Luckily, it's in a way that doesn't make it on to the internet.