Ask HN: Text-DaVinci-003/ChatGPT made up research sources?

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3 years ago

I'm using text-davinci-003 to find some research backed findings to build up my startup pitch. However, when I ask for the research source (title and url) for AI's answer, the report title and urls given by AI are usually not accessible or searchable online. https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/default-chat

Overtime, I started suspecting, are those reports and url fake/generated by AI?

Examples of the reports referred by AI: 4. Mental Health Foundation (2015). Why do some people not get the help they need? [https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/why-do-some-people-not-get-help-they-need](https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/why-do-some-people-not-get-help-they-need) 5. National Alliance on Mental Illness (2020). Mental health conditions & stigmas. [https://www.nami.org/About-Mental-Illness/Mental-Health-Conditions](https://www.nami.org/About-Mental-Illness/Mental-Health-Conditions) 6. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2019). Mental health services in the United States. [https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline](https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline) - National Institutes of Health (NIH):"The Huppert's Mental Health Spectrum: Population Distributions and Associated Factors". https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31407549/.

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