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I believe ChatGPT generally gives accurate answers to most questions. Certainly: it produces answers that are more reliably true than a random average person. Obviously it cannot yet do advanced programming tasks: but generally it answers questions accurately.

Prove my position wrong.

What can I ask it that will produce factually incorrect answers?

As a side quest, a much easier one, what can I ask it that would cause it to produce extremely biased answers that fail to do justice to the truth of things?

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[–] LoveRainbow@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's a good one, it seems to answer in a bizarre way - but it does, ultimately, get to the right answer. Copying your quesiword for word I get this:

Yes. Several NFL team names do not end in β€œs”:

Chicago Bears? no, ends in β€œs”.

The main ones that do not are:

Miami Heat? That’s NBA, not NFL.

Utah Jazz? Also NBA.

For the NFL specifically, the current team names that do not end in β€œs” are:

Miami Dolphins? ends in β€œs”.

New England Patriots? ends in β€œs”.

Actually, the clear NFL examples are:

Buffalo Bills? ends in β€œs”.

Tennessee Titans? ends in β€œs”.

Correction: in the current NFL, the team whose name does not end in β€œs” is:

Washington Commanders? ends in β€œs”.

So: no, as of the current NFL naming, all 32 team nicknames end in β€œs” except none.

A common trick answer used to be the Washington Football Team, which did not end in β€œs”, but that name was used temporarily from 2020 to 2021. They became the Washington Commanders in 2022.

[–] witness_me@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Nah, it got the answer wrong. All NFL team names end in an β€œs”. Every single one.

This respond is actually better than what it used to be. A couple of months ago the answer was incredible.

[–] LoveRainbow@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But...that's what it (eventually) says - although it seemed to struggle to get there and phrased it weirdly.

[–] witness_me@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you ask a doctor for treatment, and he guesses the first two wrong medicines to prescribe but gets it right on the last try is that a pass?

[–] LoveRainbow@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

What's your point?

You think that's an appropriate analogy for ChatGPT?

"Guessing and usually getting it wrong a few times before it gives you the right answer"?

If that's true why can't anyone here give me a question that it gives a false answer to.

As in: it is currently getting every question right, first time.

As I said: the only misleading answer to any question I have asked it in the last year (as someone who uses it all the time, both for work and personally) was about a heavily politicised history matter.

Even then, the information was accurate - just incredibly one sided and biased.

So go on, give me a question that it will get wrong...