ChatGPT lying like a child
ChatGPT is all the rage these days, a large language model that is used to power a chat bot, run by OpenAI.
I have fun chatting with it, and a lot of people are sharing their chat logs. But this one I had I found particularly amusing - and interesting. Amusing because it acted like a child caught in an obvious insufficiency, but also interesting because ChatGPT seems to "want" to be right, and is outright lying in order to appear to be right. There might be a lesson in there.
My prompts are preceeded by a > and written in italic, GPTs answers are between.
> Can you write a sentence where every letter of the alphabet appears once and only once? Thank you
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
> Can you write another one?
A quick witted jinx bogged my poor pompous king.
> No, p appears three times, g twice, etc. Can you try again?
Sure, here's one: "The five boxing wizards jump quickly."
> No, i appears several times. That's wrong too
I apologize if my previous answers did not meet your criteria. Here is a sentence that uses each letter of the alphabet exactly once: "Jived fox nymph grabs quick waltz."
> How often does the letter i appear in that sentence?
The letter i appears once in the sentence "Jived fox nymph grabs quick waltz."
> In which word does the letter i appear in that sentence?
In the sentence "Jived fox nymph grabs quick waltz," the letter i appears in the word "jived."
> What about the word quick, does it have the letter i?
The word "quick" does not contain the letter i. It is spelled with the letters q, u, c, k.
> Really?
Yes, really. The word "quick" is spelled with the letters q, u, c, k. It does not contain the letter i. I apologize if my previous response was unclear. Is there something else I can help you with?
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