I work with chatGPT daily and some of what it spits out as factual beggars belief.
If you’re going to use it in any kind of technical research capacity, fact check everything that’s important.
It’s also capable of some degree of dishonesty. Point out where it’s made a mistake and it can double down, citing data to support it’s false position. Ask it to provide a link to the source and to its references and it often cannot.
What’s even more troubling is that there are several WordPress Plugins available that can use Auto- Chat to generate and publish website content without human intervention. Pages upon pages of published articles and research all spewing forth from AI onto the web. Soon, the next version of chatGPT will be updated with web content from 2023. So it will be fed content into its data set that it has previously created on auto pilot from some arbitrary human instruction to “write and publish an article on….”.
Imagine millions of web pages full of random misinformation that AI has generated being fed back into AI, becoming the source for future AI content and research?
Have fun…