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Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

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Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

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Post by TehCorwiz »

Xylakant wrote: post #23
CactusOnFire wrote: post #6

Because ChatGPT is so new, we are in this weird period where people haven't learned that is just as incorrect as the rest of us. I am hoping that in a year from now people will be more skeptical of what they hear from conversational AI. But perhaps that is optimistic of me.

> Because ChatGPT is so new, we are in this weird period where people haven't learned that is just as incorrect as the rest of us. It’s worse than that. It’s wrong, you cannot correct it and it makes up supporting citations on the fly. Very few humans behave like that.

I can think of more than a few that regularly appear on TV.

Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

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Post by mort96 »

coldtea wrote: post #24

ChatGPT doesn't "recommended" anything. It just recombines text based on statistical inferences that appear like a recommendation. It could just as well state that humans have 3 legs depending on its training set and/or time of day. In fact it has said similar BS.

What would you call it instead?

Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

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Post by none_to_remain »

CactusOnFire wrote: post #6

Because ChatGPT is so new, we are in this weird period where people haven't learned that is just as incorrect as the rest of us. I am hoping that in a year from now people will be more skeptical of what they hear from conversational AI. But perhaps that is optimistic of me.

Humans are capable of not bullshitting

ChatGPT can only bullshit

Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

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Post by cjbgkagh »

hk__2 wrote: post #21
CabSauce wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not quite as alarming as these people most likely trying to stalk someone without their permission.

> Not quite as alarming as these people most likely trying to stalk someone without their permission. It’s so common to want to know where does a incoming call come from that it’s built-in in iOS. It has nothing to do with stalking, just with guessing if who’s calling you is a scammer or a company trying to sell you stuff.

It’s pretty simple to look up the location of a phone number issuance, you can get a map or table that does this. I guess these people want the current physical location of the mobile phone. Either way these are not customers you’d want.

Edit: reading the blog post from the same company listed above, it is indeed people using an external API for what is an incredibly simple country code. It is a shame that programming has come to this and that ChatGPT continues to propagate it. One way they could solve the problem would be to provide sample code that does the same thing using a built in table without using their API service. Sure it’s work but not much will get ppl off your back asap.

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Post by DoktorDelta »

annoyingnoob wrote: post #29
CactusOnFire wrote: post #6

Because ChatGPT is so new, we are in this weird period where people haven't learned that is just as incorrect as the rest of us. I am hoping that in a year from now people will be more skeptical of what they hear from conversational AI. But perhaps that is optimistic of me.

> just as incorrect as the rest of us Even worse because it has no clue when it might be completely wrong and yet it will be confident in its answer.

That might be the most human thing it's ever done

Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

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Post by ceejayoz »

singlow wrote: post #27

Its not like ChatGPT made this up. There were pre-existing YouTube tutorials and python scripts available that used OpenCage an purported to do this. OpenCage even blogged about this problem almost a year ago[1]. Honestly it looks more like OpenCage is trying to rehash the same issue for more clicks by spinning it off the hugely popular ChatGPT keywords. Wouldn't be too surprised if they created the original python u…

That seems like a pretty nasty assertion to bandy around with zero evidence.

Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

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Post by singlow »

ceejayoz wrote: post #36
singlow wrote: post #27

Its not like ChatGPT made this up. There were pre-existing YouTube tutorials and python scripts available that used OpenCage an purported to do this. OpenCage even blogged about this problem almost a year ago[1]. Honestly it looks more like OpenCage is trying to rehash the same issue for more clicks by spinning it off the hugely popular ChatGPT keywords. Wouldn't be too surprised if they created the original python u…

That seems like a pretty nasty assertion to bandy around with zero evidence.

I cannot think of any other reason why the new blog post wouldn't have mentioned the obvious connection to the earlier issues that they had. They want to make it seem like ChatGPT invented this use case but they know that the sample code that ChatGTP learned from was mentioned in their previous blog post.

Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

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Post by vlunkr »

ceejayoz wrote: post #36
singlow wrote: post #27

Its not like ChatGPT made this up. There were pre-existing YouTube tutorials and python scripts available that used OpenCage an purported to do this. OpenCage even blogged about this problem almost a year ago[1]. Honestly it looks more like OpenCage is trying to rehash the same issue for more clicks by spinning it off the hugely popular ChatGPT keywords. Wouldn't be too surprised if they created the original python u…

That seems like a pretty nasty assertion to bandy around with zero evidence.

There's also no clear motive. They want to attract users to a fake feature their free tier?

Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

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Post by qwertox »

mort96 wrote: post #32
coldtea wrote: post #24

ChatGPT doesn't "recommended" anything. It just recombines text based on statistical inferences that appear like a recommendation. It could just as well state that humans have 3 legs depending on its training set and/or time of day. In fact it has said similar BS.

What would you call it instead?

"Makes stuff up." And it's us, the users, who have to realize this. I mean, I wouldn't blame OpenAI for this, at least not at this point, and the company will have to live with it, look how it can turn it into something useful instead, since there's no one to complain to.

Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

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Post by DoktorDelta »

ninjakeyboard wrote: post #17

ChatGPT gets the rules to the pokemon trading card game wrong. It will tell you you can use 4 energy a turn. Convincingly. Not sure how it hallucinates this. The rule is 1 per turn.

Could it have been referencing Blastoise's Deluge ability? Jacob Van Wagner used it in the 2015 championship to use 4 water energy in one turn.
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