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   Kashmir Hill (kashhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 16:59:09 JST Kashmir Hill

   This week, I got pitched by a PR guy who expressed admiration for a book I wrote. Except I didn't write the book and when I Googled the title, no one else had either. I emailed the guy back: "What did you think of the book? 😉" That led him to admit that "someone used ChatGPT" and it gave a bio for me with this invented piece of information. The guy was embarrassed but I found it fascinating. ChatGPT hasn't learned how to tell the truth but it has learned plausibility. Beware, early adopters!

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     Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 16:59:11 JST Per Axbom

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     @kashhill So bizarre to see this happening all around. My latest post is about exactly this, misattribution of authors and non-existent books.
     
     https://axbom.com/ux-authors-wonderland/
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