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What question can I ask ChatGPT, right now, that will reliably produce a factually incorrect, wrong, or false answer? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by LoveRainbow@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] 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 “s”. 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...