You must have missed the article posted this morning where ChatGPT complexity invented a sexual allegation against a law professor including citing a fictional news article that never existed. I wouldn’t call that a subtle misunderstanding.
I'm not asking for lists of sexual allegations, I'm asking about technical concepts. Very different.
Yes, chatGPT hallucinates facts and is not great at causal inference chains. The interactivity is the real boon as what I can do is query the chat bot, and then explore the results either with traditional research or with more queries and exploration. It's a really fun and productive way to learn.
So it's the Weekly World News... And yea, we've had rags before AI was made too.