Just your daily reminder to not trust or at the very least, fact check whatever chatgpt spews out because not only does it blatantly lie, but it also makes stuff way more than youd want to believe.

(btw batrapeton doesnt exist and is a fictional genus of jurassic amphibians that I made up for a story that I am writing. They never existed in any way shape or form and neither is there any trace of info about them online yet here we are with chatgpt going “trust me bro” about them lol)

  • Drew@sopuli.xyz
    24·
    12 hours ago

    Nobody asked it to imagine anything. What would x mean in y is a common phrasing

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      3·
      12 hours ago

      Yes, they did. OP instructed it to fill in the blank by asking “what would it mean”, not if it knows what it is. If you ask it, “Do you know what ‘batrapeton’ means in a paleontological context?” instead, it does a quick search and responds like this:

      AI output hidden from delicate eyes (/s Actually, it's just long)

      I could not find any credible reference in the paleontological literature for the term “batrapeton” (or very close variants) as a recognized taxon, feature, or concept.

      It’s possible that:

      The term is a typographical or transcription error (e.g. a mis-spelling of a known genus or concept).

      It’s an informal, local, or unpublished name (a “nomen nudum”) used in a manuscript but never formally erected.

      It might be a fictional or invented name (as some discussions online suggest) with no real scientific usage.

      One possibly related genus is Batropetes, which is a valid extinct genus of microsaur (a kind of small early amphibian) from the Early Permian (Germany). Wikipedia

      If “batrapeton” was intended to be “Batropeton” (or something like that), then the user might have meant “Batropetes”. But “batrapeton” as spelled does not seem to match any known paleontological entity.

      If you like, I can help you check whether “batrapeton” appears in niche literature (theses, old reports) or whether it’s a mis-rendering of another name — would you like me to look further?

      • Drew@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        7 hours ago

        I just asked Gemini and it got the wrong answer even after google searching. Plus, what I said was “what would <something> mean in <some field>” is a normal way of asking “what does <something> mean in <some field>”, which a non-pedantic English speaker would understand.

        Gemini responding that it is an extinct dinosaur