I keep seeing posts where people are shocked that ChatGPT got current events wrong or made something up.
This isn’t a bug. LLMs have a knowledge cutoff and no native access to live information. If you ask it about something that happened last week without enabling search, it’s going to hallucinate: that’s not the model malfunctioning, that’s the model doing exactly what you’d expect a model without internet access to do (they’re not omnipotent)
Before you post a screenshot calling it gaslighting: check whether search was enabled. If it wasn’t, that’s the whole story.
Enable search. Give it context. Tune your custom instructions to prompt the model to search on default rather than using solely its data.
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