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Kevin Okemwa

Being cruel to ChatGPT apparently manipulates the people-pleasing AI into giving more accurate responses — if you're willing to use "uncivil discourse" with bots

An image of a woman holding a laptop in front of a ChatGPT logo displayed on a computer screen.

Generative AI has advanced tremendously, particularly among AI chatbots like ChatGPT. I can remember hallucinations and outrightly wrong responses to queries among the top complaints lodged by users in the early days of ChatGPT and Bing Chat (now Microsoft Copilot).

While ChatGPT and Copilot have improved significantly, they still often generate incorrect responses. So, it's still important to tread carefully when interacting with these tools. If you've ever interacted with ChatGPT, you might have noticed a subtle disclaimer at the bottom of its answers: "ChatGPT can make mistakes."

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