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Comment by smusamashah | Hacker News Reader

It is OpenAI's responsibility to advertise ChatGPT correctly. They are letting the misinformation / misunderstanding about spread because it's helping them sell their tool. ChatGPT is not a fact database, they should be very very clear about it everywhere. But they are not doing it. Or at least not doing it as loudly as they should intentionally.

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It gives you the following warning in a large prompt in the middle of the screen that you must actively dismiss before you can use the product.

"While we have safeguards in place, the system may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information and produce offensive or biased content. It is not intended to give advice."

If that isn't being clear, I don't know what would be.

It's not clear precisely because it's a warning in the middle of the screen you must actively dismiss. Most of the time such supposedly important notifications are little more than spam, which teaches people to dismiss them quickly without reading.

What else should they do?

I think you should have to write your acceptance 100 times on a chalkboard like Bart Simpson.

It's not explicit enough. It should say that whatever text it generates must always be taken with a pinch of salt and must not be trusted as source of facts. It does not generate facts.

Unfortunately that may not be enough now.

Doesn't matter if the source is "AI chat" or anything else. Words published online falsely accusing innocent people of crimes, is a problem. Particularly when the source aims to be "intelligent" and promoted as a tool for learning, research and discovery.

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