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Re: ChatGPT and the navigation stars...
From: Bill Ritchie
Date: 2024 Jul 9, 03:15 -0700
From: Bill Ritchie
Date: 2024 Jul 9, 03:15 -0700
Not only ChatGPT! I have just asked (July 9th UT) Microsoft's Copilot "When will the star Spica next be occulted by the Moon?" The learned reply started with a verbatim quote from an article in earthsky.org.
"The next lunar occultation of Spica is on June 16, 2024. It will be visible to observers located near the Caspian Sea."
Not much intelligence used in filtering that quote! It correctly continued with information on the July 13th occultation, all very similar to text in an article in skyandtelescope.org.
Bill Ritchie.
