For example, here's a section from the Build Your Own Redis book:
Our server will be able to process multiple requests from a client, to do that we need to implement some sort of “protocol”, at least to split requests apart from the TCP byte stream. The easiest way to split requests apart is by declaring how long the request is at the beginning of the request. Let’s use the following scheme.
The protocol consists of 2 parts: a 4-byte little-endian integer indicating the length of the following request, and a variable length request.
Starts from the code from the last chapter, the loop of the server is modified to handle multiple requests:
GPT suggested this instead:
Our server will process multiple requests from a client by implementing a protocol to separate requests from the TCP byte stream. The simplest method for separating requests is to include the length of each request at the start. The protocol consists of two parts: a 4-byte little-endian integer indicating the length of the request and a variable-length request. The server code from the previous chapter has been modified to handle multiple requests in the following manner:
There are no hallucinated facts because the most probable continuation of the given prompts is one that can gather all required information from the original text itself.
It's sort of like the difference between the truthfulness of analytic and synthetic claims. An analytic claim would be like "It is raining and you're outside, naked, and unsheltered so therefor water is falling on your skin from the sky." A synthetic claim would be like "It is raining outside".
Synthetic claims are said to be contingent on facts outside the text itself. These are the cases where GPT is completely useless.
The error rate for analytic claims is much lower although anyone who is writing anything should do a lot of review before publishing. Think of it like you asked your assistant to write something. You're gonna wanna read it over before you slap your name on it.
I mean, I actually don't care if you use these tools or not but your explanation of how it works will guide other readers in the wrong direction so I feel the need to correct the narrative you've presented.