I asked it for a list of restaurants in my area using google maps and it said there is a restaurant (Mug and Bean) in my area and even used a real address but this restaurant is not in my town. Its only in a neighboring town with a different street address
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It doesn’t know what facts are. It has algorithmically determined what facts look like, and has been given a huge bank of largely plagiarised material to paint a picture of a fact with. It literally isn’t capable of repeating facts outside of an accident or a hugely weighted sample giving it overwhelming bias toward the fact. It’s been fed a load of stolen shit from the internet, so that second one isn’t that likely to happen lol.
It probably made up the address too, it just did so because people who talk about your area talk about certain streets a lot, and the numbers average out to a certain range. They probably talk about the neighbouring town’s restaurant, so hey, throw a mention of it in there.
This is, for example, why you can’t use it to write stories or essays and have it actually write anything good. It doesn’t know what a story or essay is and it doesn’t know the techniques involved in writing them properly. It just has an algorithm telling it what a story and an essay look like. If you tell it to write a story, it’ll write the most derivative crap possible and maybe throw in Jon Snow or a hyperspecific fanfiction porn trope that it can’t possibly have in its database without theft for good measure, and there won’t be anything resembling a coherent character arc, and if you tell it to write an essay it’ll ‘hallucinate’ all its sources because it knows what a citation looks like and maybe how they’re formatted, but it is incapable of understanding sources or even finding them properly.
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