No, it did not “double-check”—that’s not something it can do! And stating that the cases “can be found on legal research databases” is a flat out lie.
What’s harder is explaining why ChatGPT would lie in this way. What possible reason could LLM companies have for shipping a model that does this?
It did this because it's copying how humans talk, not what humans do. Humans say "I double checked" when asked to verify something, that's all GPT knows or cares about.
What’s harder is explaining why ChatGPT would lie in this way. What possible reason could LLM companies have for shipping a model that does this?
It did this because it's copying how humans talk, not what humans do. Humans say "I double checked" when asked to verify something, that's all GPT knows or cares about.