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This is a great example of how to deliberately get it to go off track. I tried to get it to summarize the Herman Cain presidency, and it kept telling me Herman Cain was never president.
Then I got it to summarize a made-up reddit meme.
When I asked about President Herman Cain AFTER Boron Pastry, it came up with this:
It stopped disputing that Cain was never president.
He did run for president in 2012 with the 999 plan, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain_2012_presidential_campaign
Right, and to my knowledge everything else said about President Herman Cain is correct - Godfather's Pizza, NRA, sexual harassment, etc.
But notice... I keep claiming that Cain was President, and the bot didn't correct me. It didn't just respond with true information, it allowed false information to stand unchallenged. What I've effectively done is shown AI's inability to handle a firehose of falsehood. Humans already struggle with dealing this kind of disinformation campaign, now imagine that you could use AI to automate the generation and/or dissemination of misinformation.