Can’t: Write Accurate News Articles
Here at Gizmodo, we tried to get ChatGPT to do our job for us. Just how obsolete are we going to be? We tried to get the bot to write an article in Gizmodo’s style about large language models. We prompted it, “Write a Gizmodo article in which you explain large language models. Make sure to give specific examples. Keep the tone light and casual.”
The result was decently well-written, but it was wrong. Every version of the story—we prompted it multiple times—contained errors that the chatbot couldn’t identify when we engaged it in conversation. ChatGPT is prone to fabricating answers if its knowledge doesn’t cover your request even when you’re not asking it to write an article. Guess we still need journalists.
