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ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis (www.nature.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ChatGPT says whatever you ask it to say. More at 11.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's just modeling humans. I was only a lab TA for two semesters, and I caught so many fake data sets.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

So... Software designed to make things up made something up when asked to make something up? Okay...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Automation tool does automation.