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)
ChatGPT learns from your previous threads.
If you're using ChatGPT for your writing, it probably used that as information to answer the question.
After asking it a similar question, it answered in a similar way.
When asking for sources, it spit out information about a name that's very similar, which it seems to have used too to describe the fictional species.
When pressed a little more, it even linked this very post.
I didnt ask it about amphibians, writing or any extinct species at all. I was trying to see if a name that I wanted to use for a work of fiction wasnt already in use and if said name would make sense in the context that I wanted to use it in.