4o is now fabricating English words! Users who are not native or fluent in English should be careful
Rada Vassil
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Yesterday I asked ChatGPT to improve a sentence and it “improved” it with a made-up word.
Here’s the conversation:
> ChatGPT: There’s a slight awkwardness in the phrasing. Here's a refined version:
"The AI tool will help you make further refinishments.”
> Me: is refinishments a common English word?
> ChatGPT: No, "refinishments" is not a common English word. The correct term to use would be "refinements." I apologize for the mistake in the previous message. Here's the corrected version:
"The AI tool will help you make further refinements.”
This is very strange. We know that genAI hallucinates when trying to fill in gaps in its knowledge that weren't covered during its training.
But ChatGPT is specifically trained on language! It's highly unlikely that it wasn't properly trained on common English words and expression.
Have you had similar experiences?
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Namrata Arya@namrata_arya
Namify
Omg 🙈 my experience working with 4o for content generation has been frustrating at times in the last few days. I find myself going back to the earlier versions often
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@namrata_arya
It's been more than a few days for me. I noticed the decline in quality immediately after they announced 4.o
I hope they didn't change the algorithm of ChatGPT-4 too.
LOL, ‘refinishments’ sounds like something I'd accidentally say during a presentation.
AI is amazing but definitely not flawless.
AI HomeDesign
strange indeed! Haven't seen anything like it.
It's like ChatGPT stepped into the wild world of Scrabble and came back with a made-up word! Maybe it's secretly inventing its own dictionary. Who knows what words we might find next?
Vitamin AI
I haven't had such experience yet. Could it be that 4o is learning from people mixing two languages ? I know some English and French words tend to be mixed up and thus creating nonexistent words
@gabriel_west
It's even more concerning if it's trained by people who aren't language experts and mix languages.
It shouldn't mix languages or fabricate words, especially when my instructions were to improve my sentence.