subignition@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Chat GPT appears to hallucinate or outright lie about everythingEnglish
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18 days agoThis is the best article I’ve seen yet on the topic. It does mention the “how” in brief, but this analogy really explains the “why” Gonna bookmark this in case I ever need to try to save another friend or family member from drinking the Flavor-Aid
They’re pretty reasonable for consensus-based programming prompts as well like “Compare and contrast popular libraries for {use case} in {language}” or “I want to achieve {goal/feature} in {summary of project technologies}, what are some ways I could structure this?”
Of course you still shouldn’t treat any of the output as factual without verifying it. But at least in the former case, I’ve found it more useful than traditional search engines to generate leads to look into, even if I discard some or all of the specific information it asserts
Edit: Which is largely due to traditional search engines getting worse and worse in recent years, sadly