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Just your daily reminder to not trust or at the very least, fact check whatever chatgpt spews out because not only does it blatantly lie, but it also makes stuff way more than youd want to believe.

(btw batrapeton doesnt exist and is a fictional genus of jurassic amphibians that I made up for a story that I am writing. They never existed in any way shape or form and neither is there any trace of info about them online yet here we are with chatgpt going "trust me bro" about them lol)

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[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

you just asked it to imagine what the inexistant word would mean, than complained that it did it's job?

lmao

like, i thought this community is for people sharing the hate for cheap corpo hype over ai, not trying to hype up the hate for the otherwise useful instrument. You're swaying from one extreme to anothar.

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nobody asked it to imagine anything. What would x mean in y is a common phrasing

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 12 hours ago

semantics bro, they're important

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes, they did. OP instructed it to fill in the blank by asking "what would it mean", not if it knows what it is. If you ask it, "Do you know what 'batrapeton' means in a paleontological context?" instead, it does a quick search and responds like this:

AI output hidden from delicate eyes (/s Actually, it's just long)

I could not find any credible reference in the paleontological literature for the term “batrapeton” (or very close variants) as a recognized taxon, feature, or concept.

It’s possible that:

The term is a typographical or transcription error (e.g. a mis-spelling of a known genus or concept).

It’s an informal, local, or unpublished name (a “nomen nudum”) used in a manuscript but never formally erected.

It might be a fictional or invented name (as some discussions online suggest) with no real scientific usage.

One possibly related genus is Batropetes, which is a valid extinct genus of microsaur (a kind of small early amphibian) from the Early Permian (Germany). Wikipedia

If “batrapeton” was intended to be “Batropeton” (or something like that), then the user might have meant “Batropetes”. But “batrapeton” as spelled does not seem to match any known paleontological entity.

If you like, I can help you check whether “batrapeton” appears in niche literature (theses, old reports) or whether it's a mis-rendering of another name — would you like me to look further?

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I just asked Gemini and it got the wrong answer even after google searching. Plus, what I said was "what would <something> mean in <some field>" is a normal way of asking "what does <something> mean in <some field>", which a non-pedantic English speaker would understand.

Gemini responding that it is an extinct dinosaur

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

wow, it's almost like you should differenciate the good tools from bad to know the one suitable for the task

and it's almost like you should use them with clear purpose and care to actually achieve good results

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, Gemini is a lot worse generally, and you have to be "pedantic" to get what you want.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Works as intended (if not as advertised)

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

just as always