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Incorrect. ChatGPT hallucinates because that’s how LLMs work. Hoovering up misinformation is a separate problem.
Incorrect. Chegg is a cheating platform. It is the opposite of a knowledge platform.
Why is Gizmodo paying people to write articles who apparently know pretty much nothing about the subject they are writing about?
Because they know their audience.
Having bad information in your dataset surely has to increase the odds of hallucinations though.
that's not completely fair ; they could have done their research (using ai)
I read some of the author’s other articles. They have a habit of regurgitating highly suspect claims from press releases or company self-descriptions as if they were reality.
There’s also the article which claims that AI puts the entire power grid at risk, and then when you read the article, you learn that in order for that to be true, you need to lump AI in with crypto mining, other datacenter expansion, electric cars, and climate control for people’s homes.