A new low for artificial intelligence — ChatGPT cited admittedly “fictional” scientific studies to answer a question about radiation.
Ahead of coming blockbuster radiation safety news on JunkScience.com, I asked ChatGPT whether exposure to radiation can cause genetic mutation. In its best imitation of 1946 Nobel prize winner Herman Muller, one of the all-time biggest science frauds, ChatGPT responded affirmatively:
So I asked ChatGPT to cite a study reporting that radiation induces genetic mutation:
Curious, I tried to find the study that ChatGPT not only cited but described. What I found, though, is that no such study actually exists.
So I went back to ChatGPT with that information and it responded:
Then I tried to find the second study, which is also described in some detail. Again, it did not exist. And I reported that to ChatGPT, which then mades an astounding admission:
It is apparently so well established that radiation can induce genetic mutation that ChatGPT can’t cite a single real study and instead offers “fictional studies.” And though ChatGPT only offers fictional studies to support its position, it still maintains that radiation causes genetic mutation.
Artificial intelligence produces true lies.
As they used to chant in the early days of bits and bytes when a computer coughed out nonsense: “Garbage In, Garbage Out.”
Well, GIGO still reigns, not only in human intelligence, but also in so-called artificial intelligence.
Scientific plausibility is one thing but outright BS is quite another…
Of course ionizing radiation ionizes, but in less than 1 in a zillion instances does that ionization cause any kind of problem…
Of course long-term smoking and asbestos exposure can cause fatal lung damage, but for 93% of smokers and 99.9% of full-time asbestos workers they don’t………
Of course vaccines can protect against coronaviruses, but <<100%….
Of course outdoor air today at 300K has nothing in it to cause any health issues…..
Chicken Little / Henny Penny have for millennia helped the little-tin-god politicians scare their fellow ignorami into voting for them and accepting their junk 'science' based rules and regulations …………………..LOL
AI is not really AI. It is only called AI in order to infer undue credibility on it. Like it’s masters, it is just spitting out what was put into it and programmed to defend it’s statements. The biggest surprise to me is that it then admits it is mistaken if confronted. I’m pretty sure once the masters find out this flaw, it will be rewritten to defend it’s statements no matter what irrefutable evidence it is confronted with. Then it will be a more realistic copy of it’s masters.
who trained that AI, Dan (“fake but accurate”) Rather?? Or perhaps it was Presidunce Biteme.
Consider if you will, that the average jamoke out there has zero science knowledge and consider “experts” and fake scientists to be solid sources of true information (appeal to authority).