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As another side note, using ChatGPT as a search engine is not so great.

Recently, I was trying to find golang libraries for managing authorization. The first one was a well known library (I was incidentally trying to avoid).

But the others 4 were complete were completely fantasy projects. ChatGPT simply invented complete projects with descriptions and github urls.

Interestingly, looking at the urls, it seemed to actually be a composition of authors working on the subject and similar project in other languages.

I also observed the same behavior when I tried to find community resale/recycling centers (ressourcerie in French) in my neighborhood, and sure enough it generated a bunch of fake addresses.

It's logical in hindsight, ChatGPT is a generative AI after all. But these results left me scratching my head at first.



Are you using ChatGPT Pro?

Whenever I hear people criticizing ChatGPT because of hallucinations, I have to ask, because it feels like they've solved 90% of that problem with GPT4.




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