I’ve tried asking it to write arguments and support them but the references are fake. It apologizes when confronted but does it over and over again even when I ask it not to provide fake references.
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It doesn’t know what a real/fake reference is. It knows how to string words together into something that sounds like an argument, and it knows that when other people write arguments, they put a string of names/dates/titles/publishers at the end in APA format, but it doesn’t understand the connection between those things.
GPT is a baby. Beyond the superficial level, in a very real sense, it doesn’t know what it’s doing. It’s just good at mimicking people who do.
If I can anthropomorphize a bit, it doesn’t intend to lie or cheat here. In a few years it might understand those concepts but right now, it’s trying to play a game without knowing most of the rules. When my friend taught me basketball I committed double-dribbling, up-and-down and travelling multiple times in the first minute. It’s not that I set out to be a cheat, I was just trying to do what I’d seen basketball players do, without knowing any of the nuances.
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