Just a quick check on how ChatGPT's getting on ...
Me: Who reassigned the species Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus, and when?
ChatGPT: The species Brachiosaurus brancai was reassigned to its own genus, Giraffatitan, by the paleontologist Michael Janensch in 1914.
Sheesh.
Following up ...
Me: Dude, that is so wrong I can't even.
ChatGPT: I apologize for the mistake in my previous response. The reassignment of Brachiosaurus brancai to Giraffatitan brancai was not done by Michael Janensch. The correct attribution goes to the paleontologist Ernst Stromer, who reclassified it in 1914.
Third try:
Me: That answer is even worse. Stromer had nothing to do with the genus name OR species name.
ChatGPT: I apologize for the confusion in my previous responses. The reassignment of Brachiosaurus brancai to Giraffatitan brancai was actually done by the paleontologist Werner Janensch, not Michael Janensch, in 1914.
I mean to say, what?
It's like a not very bright, but desperately eager to please, high school student trying really hard to follow a teacher's guidelines on how to write an essay. It understands the form well enough, but completely fails to grasp how to produce good content.
