Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: AI Hallucinating

[Lisa Kuntz (lisa.kuntz]

Thanks, Sharon, very much appreciated!

Lisa Kuntz
Daybreak Cohousing
Portland OR

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 10:50 AM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> > For those who are unaware, ChatGPT regularly hallucinates, aka gives
> plausible-sounding but fake answers. Its answers always need to be
> fact-checked.
>
> One of the things that is wonderful for writers is the ability to use the
> Web to immediately fact-check birthdates, event dates, name spellings, etc.
> I don’t have to go to the library or keep a current set of encyclopedias to
> quickly confirm a tiny and mostly irrelevant piece of information. For
> someone who likes to do research and thinks in terms of a relational
> database (with an imprecise memory) this is such a huge gift.
>
> But, I have no faith in AI, ChatGPT, etc. If you haven’t noticed, many
> searches will now start with a ChatGPT entry as the first result.  I
> recently searched “famous FBI Director” because I couldn’t remember his
> name. The response I got was "J. Edgar Hoover" with a picture of the
> current FBI Director Christopher Wray. It took a few seconds to figure out
> what I was seeing.
>
> (I tried to duplicate this today and it wasn’t happening. Google might
> have had some kind of test going over the last two weeks and that doesn’t
> seem to be in use now.)
>
> And, I also had a problem recently with my Chrome browser using
> YahooSearch instead of Google, but I hadn’t changed any settings. Reddit is
> becoming my go-to for weird things. The answer was that an extension that I
> had downloaded from the Chrome Extension site had a bug/worm/virus that
> switched all my searches to Yahoo. It wasn’t an odd addon from a geek
> developer. I don’t know which one it was because I just deleted the ones I
> hadn’t been using for years and years. Problem solved.
>
> Hal is here.
>
> Sharon
> ----
> Sharon Villines, Washington DC
>
> "Give someone a book, they'll read for a day. Teach someone to write a
> book and they will spend a lifetime mired in paralyzing self-doubt.”  —
> Lauren DeStafano
>
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