So, we are citing ChatGPT for news now?
And not even trying to hide the fact?
Jesus. We’re cooked.
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I’m with you on that one, I mean it really wouldn’t be that hard to just.. do the math on this, especially if it’s your job to write articles like this.
Maybe the phrase “we asked chatGPT” is the new hotness in clickbait but fuck me if it isn’t depressing.
We asked chatGPT for the top ten fashion trends of 2025. You won’t believe number 6.
🙃
Well?? Tell me 6 7
But then OP wouldn’t be able to use the buzzword / buzzphrase
We're well passed cooked from what I've seen..
ChatGPT was cited as source. That’s not terrible. To not double-check those numbers is not great, but we aren’t doomed because it was cited. We would be doomed if this became the norm.
If I can’t cite Wikipedia as a source in a school paper, journalists shouldn’t be allowed to cite ChatGPT for an article.
Research is part of their job.
Big brain move, asking an LLM to do economics math. They’re large LANGUAGE models, not large MATHEMATICAL models. They forgo rigorous methodologies in favor of stochastically predicting correlations based on intractably large datasets, which can lead to such impressive mathematical feats as failing to count to three. Great job, Yahoo.
Seriously. My sister was the one who believed ChatGPT can think and do calculus or math. I gave a rather simple but definitely unique math task. At first I put it into google search calculator and showed the result, which was correct. Then I gave the same exact thing to ChatGPT and the result was completely different and false.
My favorite example was when they gave all the top LLMs a task to figure out how many circles in an image were touching. Every single one failed miserably at this task that would have been trivial for a 3 year old.
Unless the answer was five. Because of the Olympics logo.
Edit: I posted this because I would imagine LLMs to have readily accessible figures that random reporters may not.
LLMs have the same information that a reporter can find online or other public records, but will more often than not conflate separate things into new, inaccurate info or straight up make shit up that sounds accurate to someone who doesn't know anything about the subject.
I don't understand why I still have to see posts from this user who I've blocked over and over for months.