11 Ways ChatGPT Is Completely and Utterly Unreliable

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ChatGPT can arrange data in order and occasionally add numbers together. And when you’re lucky, it may produce confident, plausible-sounding output, regardless of whether its creations are accurate, appropriate or suited to the situation at hand. The rest of the time, it’s essentially a glorified search engine that’s no easier than using Google to perform research tasks. That may be blunt, but it’s the truth.

If you want to alphabetize a list or do something else that you could accomplish with a pen or paper, AI assistance can be a reasonable shortcut. For the eleven situations in this list, however, it’s a shortcut that either produces inferior results, actively misleads you, or slowly erodes a capability you’ll want to keep, like using your brain.

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