• @Barbarian@lemmy.ml
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    110 months ago

    ChatGPT is absolutely NOT the right tool for the job if you want answers to questions. People need to understand that ChatGPT is not an AI. It doesn’t even have the concept of truth and fiction, let alone the ability to differentiate.

    It is a very sophisticated and very advanced autocomplete, using probabilities to attempt to predict the next word (or tokens, if you want to get technical) over and over again until probability says it’s done. It’s great for writing boilerplate documents without any facts it has to get right, creative writing (although it tends to produce very cliche text, understandably) and boilerplate code that’s been written millions of times before in its training data. Do NOT use it for anything where facts matter.