ChatGPT Reliability Issues

The cluster discusses widespread skepticism toward ChatGPT's accuracy, focusing on its tendency to confidently produce incorrect, hallucinated, or misleading information without reliable verification methods.

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j16sdiz Feb 8, 2023 View on HN

because ChatGPT loves to make up some “facts” in authoritative tone?

yrro Jun 9, 2023 View on HN

When I ask ChatGPT about stuff I actually know about, it always gives glib, misleading and completely wrong answers. I therefore don't trust it to answer questions about stuff that I don't know much about.

8note Dec 15, 2022 View on HN

What are the harmful things chatgpt is saying? I thought it only said wrong things with great confidence

vore Nov 22, 2023 View on HN

How can you tell if ChatGPT is lying to you and what you're learning is total hogwash?

adamsmith143 Dec 14, 2022 View on HN

The problem with ChatGPT's "knowledge" is that it isn't trustworthy. It will happily output very confident sounding nonsense, or blatantly incorrect statements. We need a way to verify how accurate it's outputs are

int_19h Jan 4, 2023 View on HN

ChatGPT doesn't say anything of the sort. In fact, it will vehemently insist that what it says is not necessarily true or accurate if you challenge it.

nemo44x Dec 6, 2022 View on HN

ChatGPT speaks authoritatively about everything and is mainly wrong so yeah, this makes sense.

hyperthesis Mar 16, 2023 View on HN

I'm not sure that chatGPT actually has the correct information - it just responds to prompts for explanation as it does for any prompt. Confabulating. If its guess sounds correct, we think it is.Since it's drawing on the same information both times, it probably often is correct.In other words, like us.

mbgerring Dec 7, 2023 View on HN

How do you determine whether or not ChatGPT just made up whatever answer it gives you?

jdietrich Jul 7, 2024 View on HN

ChatGPT says "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info." directly under the prompt box. If people will blindly trust a source that explicitly states that it isn't a reliable source, then they've got much bigger problems than AI.