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It's well known for making the stuff up because this is how it works

The Guardian found a article attributed to them, generated (not "written") by chatgpt.

A silly lawyer got into trouble trying to use chatgpt-generated precedences in court.

Everything chatgpt prints out is made up, and that includes links.

Seriously, heed the warning the company itself prominently prints I app and in the webui.

Chatgpt may print out mostly true made-up sentences, but by definition, because oh how it works, it doesn't generate truth. It generates tokens that make up words.

Chatgpt is not a RAG, come on, it's 2025!






It can (and does actually) open and verify the links it provides so it's not as bad anymore, at least when it's using real existing articles/papers/etc. it find as sources inside its context.



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