Interview: Talking Truth and Fiction With ChatGPT. It’s clear that ChatGPT isn’t yet built for accuracy. Indeed, it makes things up when it needs to. In a world struggling to extract shared truth from an expanding reservoir of deepfakes, trolls, and bad-faith information, what does the famed chatbot really know or understand about facts and falsehoods? (Image by Patrick Daxenbichler)
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