Artificial Intelligence
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Just had a funny experience with ChatGPT
I remember reading a story about a tribe who worships a leader who is blind, castrated, armless, legless, and is kept in a cave and exhibited to the people only on special occasions.
I could not remember where I've read it or who is the author. Couldn't find it on Google. Decided to ask ChatGPT
ChatGPT immediately suggested it's "The Theologians" by Jorge Luis Borges. That was easy. I found the story online and it's only a few pages long. I read thought it and realize this is not it
I ask ChatGPT for a direct quote. It spits out a quote from "The Theologians" by Jorge Luis Borges about a blind, armless man etc. I google some pieces in verbatim mode -- nothing
I confront ChatGPT about this. ChatGPT is very sorry, it's not "The Theologians". The story in question is "The Sect of the Phoenix" by the same author. Again I skim through this other story -- its about something else
I ask ChatGPT for the link, it gives me a link which of course does not work *spits*
This is how long it took me to realize what I already knew anyway -- ChatGPT hallucinates from the beginning to end. It can never answer "I don't know"
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