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AI fails badly in discussing books I am reading (lemmy.world)
submitted 17 hours ago by MooseInMaine@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world
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I was recently reading Ben Aaronvitch’s ‘Rivers of London’ and I was struggling to follow the plot. So I engaged in discussions with both ChatGPT and Gemini and both really struggled to not make lots of mistakes. Both AIs would regularly give inaccurate info about major plot points, and when I questioned them about those issues, they would apologize profusely and then try to continue on. I basically had to coach them through to get them to remember important points of the plot! They also struggled to not reveal spoilers past a certain chapter. It was interesting to see the AIs repeatedly fail.

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[–] MooseInMaine@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't upload the book in this case. I could tell from the links that ChatGPT was using as references that it did have access to the full text through a website that had the text of the book, perhaps not legally.

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago

All AIs have stolen most books from Anna's Archive, they have every book out there in their database.