Subj : Re: ChatGPT Writing
To   : Rob Mccart
From : jimmylogan
Date : Tue Dec 02 2025 11:15:44

-=> Rob Mccart wrote to JIMMYLOGAN <=-

 RM> But, in this case, if the info wasn't available, at least it didn't
 RM> make something up..    B)


 JI>I've heard stories of people saying 'AI' made something up, but
  >I've yet to run across that...

 RM> I've had an AI built into the browser give me wrong information when
 RM> the correct information was not available, like once I asked for the
 RM> selling price for a property and it came back saying the property
 RM> sold for the full asking price, which turned out to be wrong.

 RM> In another case its math was comical.. It was telling me what
 RM> some gov't plan pays and the figures it came up with was something
 RM> like $750 a month totalling $1800 a year..

 RM> But my experience is probably less than most. I wouldn't use AI at
 RM> all except that my main browser (probably most browsers these days)
 RM> always gives me what their AI system thinks is the information I
 RM> am looking for in a search. It is usually quite accurate, which is
 RM> why I don't just ignore that window, but for important things I
 RM> always double check what it tells me in some other way..

Yeah - to me, though, that's not 'making something up' - that's the
same as doing a search and the search engine giving you something
totally unrelated just because it is close.

I run Car Wars games and a guy mentioned ADQ 7/1 and a design in
it. So I googled it, and got stuff about differnet things that had
adq and 7/1 in them, but not Autoduel Quarterly Volume Seven
Issue One. :-) 



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