Hallucinations in ChatGPT: An Unreliable Tool for Learning

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI:10.21659/rupkatha.v15n4.17

Zakia Ahmad, Wahid Kaiser, Sifatur Rahim

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Abstract

Recently, ChatGPT has been upgraded to its newer version for its unsubscribed users – ChatGPT 3.5. Though ChatGPT has become an astonishing phenomenon all over the world for creating realistic texts within seconds, it can disseminate wrong information and misconceptions. Technical experts have identified this problem as hallucination. This paper has examined ChatGPT’s ability to differentiate between correct and incorrect relations in the questions that are set to it. It has also explored the efficacy of ChatGPT in helping students acquire linguistic and literary proficiency. The study took the form of exploratory interpretive research. The participants of the research study were students studying English at the undergraduate level. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews, FGDs, and input provided to ChatGPT. All data were analyzed qualitatively. The findings of this research indicate that ChatGPT tends to provide inconsistent information when a series of contextual questions are asked. Because of this hallucination, ChatGPT becomes an unreliable source for language and literature learning.

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ChatGPT 中的幻觉：不可靠的学习工具

最近，ChatGPT 为其未订阅用户升级到了新版本--ChatGPT 3.5。虽然 ChatGPT 在几秒钟内就能创建出逼真的文本，这在全世界范围内已成为一种惊人的现象，但它也可能传播错误的信息和误解。技术专家将这一问题认定为幻觉。本文研究了 ChatGPT 区分问题中正确和错误关系的能力。本文还探讨了 ChatGPT 在帮助学生获得语言和文学素养方面的功效。本研究采用了探索性解释研究的形式。研究的参与者是学习英语的本科生。数据是通过半结构式访谈、FGD 和对 ChatGPT 的输入收集的。所有数据都进行了定性分析。研究结果表明，当提出一系列情境问题时，ChatGPT 往往会提供不一致的信息。由于这种幻觉，ChatGPT 成为语言和文学学习的不可靠来源。

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