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Subject: Re: Chatbots produce bogus citations
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 20:45:36 +0100
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vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 14:33:13 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
> 
> > vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sun, 28 May 2023 06:17:15 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from
> >> > ChatGPT.
> > 
> > <https://tinyurl.com/yntupbe4>
> >  
> >> Poor example of "don't trust, do verify".
> >> 
> > 
> > Hence my earlier (unchallenged) point that ChatGPT
> > does not provide citations.
> > 
> 
> It does provide citations sometimes.  And sometimes, those citations
> are bogus, which is what happened to our hero the cyberlawyer...
> 

You'd think that an educated person like a lawyer would check.  
I wonder how many naïve people would bother, rather than just 
accept the results as facts.  I hear that some people even believe 
what they read in the papers or see on TV  (strange but true).

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