Suing OpenAI for a ChatGPT bot's advice.
Even "intelligent" people can forget the basics and become distracted by shiny things. Chatbots are this era's shiny things.
OpenAI's truthiness/reliability warnings:
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8313428-does-chatgpt-tell-the-truthQuote
ChatGPT can be helpful—but it’s not always right
Sometimes, it might sound confident—even when it’s wrong. This phenomenon is often referred to as a hallucination: when the model produces responses that are not factually accurate, such as:
- Incorrect definitions, dates, or facts
- Fabricated quotes, studies, citations or references to non-existent sources
- Overconfident answers to ambiguous or complex questions
Common sense presses upon us to read the labels:
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