• Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    @ChatGPT@lemmings.world Is the below text true?

    We might actually not know why magnets work.

    The formula used to prove the functionality of magnets can also be used to prove the existence of a theoretical state called a monopolar magnet - positive or negative on both sides. So either monopolar magnets can exist, even if in some esoteric circumstance, or we don’t know why magnets work.

    • williams_482@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      You realize that ChatGPT has no concept of “true”, right? It produces output which looks coherent and reasonable and tends to stumble into truthful statements on accident, by virtue of drawing from a dataset of people saying mostly true things. Of course, the bot is equally capable of spouting off outright lies in an equally convincing manner.

      This is a very unreliable way to verify a surprising fact. I strongly recommend against it.