I tried feeding ChatGPT a misleading prompt. It called me out on my mistake (which is good) but then told me a deeply wrong story about what it thinks WAS correct.
No, Paul Upchurch never synonymised Apatosaurus with Diplodocus. But neither did Riggs, and his 1903 paper on Brachiosaurus never even mentions either of those genera. (His 1904 paper on Apatosaurus synonymises Brontosaurus with it, but not Diplodocus.)
This thing is a lie generator.
@mike Yeah, it seems pretty good on core CS stuff. Not bad even in bioinformatics. But the further you get from that kind of thing, the worse it gets. It's like a distillation of the LessWrong groupmind!
@medigoth That's a good point. I might try it on some computer science stuff next time around.