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GPT-4’s Placeholder Problem: A Case Study of GPT-4 Fake Data Presented as Fact
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GPT-4’s Placeholder Problem: A Case Study of GPT-4 Fake Data Presented as Fact

How I caught GPT-4 presenting fake data from my own article as fact

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John Loewen
Dec 26, 2023
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GPT-4 will “find” whatever you ask it to look for — this includes “research” on statistical information that you may want.

It will find it, and present it in whatever way you ask it to — in a paragraph, a chart, as a poem if you like.

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