Post ATsOi0guczhfBz78SW by sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
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(DIR) Post #ATsOi0guczhfBz78SW by sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
2023-03-22T09:45:21Z
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I've got a big list of nesting seabird sites and I'm finding out who manages each one. #ChatGPT is amazing for this - as google has become useless, I can just type "who mananges Site?" into it, then double check the results in google
(DIR) Post #ATsOi1IUNHlF4Wh91s by sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
2023-03-22T10:08:16Z
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I spoke too soon! 😂 Shotton Lagoons is in the Dee Estuary, just south of Liverpool
(DIR) Post #ATsOi1lYdD0sWgIML2 by sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
2023-03-22T10:09:02Z
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or is it? I feel like I'm going mad
(DIR) Post #ATsOi2N8NV4SPDsMuO by sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
2023-03-22T10:10:38Z
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(DIR) Post #ATsOi2tkQF9u2N8Pk8 by sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
2023-03-22T10:14:14Z
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The most annoying thing about this is that there isn't a Shotton Nature Reserve in Durham either. But why is Shotton Lagoons, Dee Estuary on my list?
(DIR) Post #ATsOi3NscDGHXpETi4 by sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
2023-03-22T10:17:46Z
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anyway, it goes on and on, I've found the site myself - a common tern colony on land managed by Tata Steel, in Flintshire - but ChatGPT refuses to acknowledge it existshttps://www.tatasteeleurope.com/corporate/news/tata-steel-lends-a-hand-to-renovate-vital-seabird-nesting-site-at-its-north-wales-steelworks
(DIR) Post #ATsOi3u8gH499sKEzY by sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
2023-03-22T10:28:48Z
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It's now obsessed with the idea that Flintshire is in Durham, even after I sent it a link to the Tata Steel Article
(DIR) Post #ATsOi4Ln1TBSXdGK5g by amcewen@mastodon.me.uk
2023-03-22T10:38:14Z
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@sarahdalgulls ChatGPT can't read the contents of links, even though it will (as with everything else) confidently assert that it can.I was surprised to find that the steelworks is in Flintshire too, but only because it's on the "wrong" side of the river Dee 😁 (having checked on a map to see if I was mis-remembering from my ride past it last summer I found that it is both on the wrong - i.e. Wirral - bank of the Dee *and* in Flintshire)
(DIR) Post #ATsOi4xikRWcRH0cDI by sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
2023-03-22T10:39:52Z
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@amcewen this was what was confusing me too! My list is of English sites, so I might have to scrub this one off. I didn't know that ChatGPT doesn't read links, thanks for that info
(DIR) Post #ATsOi5SusSTk01bWq0 by amcewen@mastodon.me.uk
2023-03-22T10:45:16Z
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@sarahdalgulls I guess they've reclaimed more of the estuary since the border was drawn or something 🤷 @simon wrote up the issue of ChatGPT hallucinating the contents of URLs - http://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/10/chatgpt-internet-access/#atom-everything
(DIR) Post #ATsOi5xl1n9HXg29uS by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-03-22T14:23:01Z
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@amcewen @sarahdalgulls ChatGPT definitely isn't tight fue this kind of research because it can only generate replies from its existing training data and will often make things upBing and Google Bard can run searches so may give you better results - they can still make things up too though
(DIR) Post #ATsOi6E43AC0MFfBKK by sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
2023-03-22T10:57:46Z
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anyhooo here's some info on Shotton Lagoons Nature Reserve, which is in Flintshire, which is not in Durham, and is managed by RSPB and Tata Steel in partnership, not the Durham Wildlife Trust. Because it's not in Durham.https://www.tatasustainability.com/TataGroupInitiativesBiodiversity/TataSteelEurope.html
(DIR) Post #ATsPq98vBjc5fxetlo by sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
2023-03-22T14:35:32Z
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@simon @amcewen ta! I was definitely thinking it would search and explain results back to me.. what is ChatGPT good at?