[Nhcoll-l] Fw: Comparing genera by AI

[Tom Schiøtte]

Vratislav,

Simply don’t trust the chat-bots over your door mat. The following is referred from Smithsonian’s newsletter that I receive.

An AI-specialist, a professor Thunström in Sweden, made an experiment putting two fake reports about a fictional eye disease on a preprint homepage and a sent out a couple of blog posts referring to the disease. The fake reports were filled with references that should have made any alarm bells that the chat bots may have, ring out loud, but both Bing, Gemini, and ChatGPT swallowed the reports and began referring to the disease as real. They simply still have not developed any sort of evaluation of their sources.

Cheers

Tom Schiøtte

Senior Collections Manager, Echinodermata & Mollusca
Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoology)
Universitetsparken 15
DK 2100 Copenhagen OE

+45 35 32 10 48
TSchioette at snm.ku.dk<mailto:TSchioette at snm.ku.dk>



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Hi

I have try ask different AI websites  just to ask simple question:
What is diference between genera Celibe and Cillibus
and I have received confusing answer about spelling etc.

When I asked:
What is difference between ColeopteraTenebrionidae genera Celibe and Cillibus
I get nice picture/table but still useless - table enclosed.

Can you advice what I am doing wrong?
Keep care and be of good cheer
Regards

Vratislav Ricardo Eugène Maria John-Baptist
Bejsak-Colloredo-Mansfeld
retired entomologist
Sydney Australia
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