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Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer

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Re: Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer

#11

i just asked chatgpt how many humans live in the solar system and it said none.

Bing says 21,894,974,404,480, based on a Wikipedia entry for 18th century scientist Thomas Dick.

Here are the details of his calculations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dick_(scientist)#/media...

Re: Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer

#13

People were talking about how pre-AI internet content might one day be valued like low-background steel, as something that's no longer being produced in a pure enough form Guess we're there already

The "dead internet" is here, and unfortunately there's no going back

Re: Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer

#15
post #13

People were talking about how pre-AI internet content might one day be valued like low-background steel, as something that's no longer being produced in a pure enough form Guess we're there already

The "dead internet" is here, and unfortunately there's no going back

It's intentional by design.

Re: Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer

#16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bing says 21,894,974,404,480, based on a Wikipedia entry for 18th century scientist Thomas Dick.

chatgpt also claims the number of people on earth vary based on births, deaths, and migration !

It’s true?

Re: Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer

#17

People were talking about how pre-AI internet content might one day be valued like low-background steel, as something that's no longer being produced in a pure enough form Guess we're there already

I might be wrong, but LLM is capable of filtering out noise.

(unless we get content farm SEO spam to avert the model)

Re: Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer

#18
First there were the journalists, who fully researched their material from first-hand sources.

Then there were the bloggers who, without leaving their armchair, wrote opinion pieces based on whatever the journalists had written.

Now there is AI, which apes the non-experience of the bloggers.

Truly we are now living in a simulation of a simulation.

Re: Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

chatgpt also claims the number of people on earth vary based on births, deaths, and migration !

It’s true?

Not a lot of people are migrating to or from Earth.

Re: Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer

#20

Either you're getting a different result due to whatever config you're getting served or they fixed it already because I'm getting 0.

I just tried asking for the population of Neptune:

> "Neptune has a total of 32,465 people and of those residents there are 15,209 males and 17,256 females. The median age of the male population is 36.8 and the female population is 40.2. There are approximately 8,127 births each year and around 5,425 deaths." --Bing

Then it linked me to https://www.movingideas.org/neptune-nj/ But it stilled showed me, on the search results page, a picture of the planet Neptune to go with the response text.

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