… and neither does the author (or so I believe - I made them both up).

On the other hand, AI is definitely good at creative writing.

  • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network
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    2 months ago

    I tried to use ChatGPT to find a song that had a particular phrase in it. I could only remember that phrase, not the song or the band.

    It hallucinated a band and a song and I almost walked away thinking I knew the answer. Then I remembered this is ChatGPT and it lies. So I looked up through conventional means that band and song.

    Neither. Existed.

    So I went back to ChatGPT and said “<band> doesn’t even exist so they couldn’t have written <song> (which also doesn’t exist)”. It apologized profusely and then said another band and song. This time I was wary and checked right away at which point, naturally, I discovered neither existed.

    So I played with ChatGPT instead and said “Huh, those guys look interesting. What other albums have they released and what hits have they written?”

    ChatGPT hallucinated an entire release catalogue of albums that don’t exist, one of which was published on a label that doesn’t exist, citing songs that didn’t exist as their hits, even going so far as to say the band never reached higher than #12 on Billboard’s list.

    ChatGPT is a dangerous tool. It’s going to get someone killed sooner, rather than later.