ChatGPT Is Great--You're Just Using It Wrong

It doesn't take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake. My son is doing a report on US presidents, so I figured I'd help him out by looking up a few biographies. Garry Wills famously wrote "Lincoln at Gettysburg," and Lincoln himself wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, of course, but it's not a bad start. Then I tried something harder, asking instead about the much more obscure William Henry Harrison, and it gamely provided a list, nearly all of which was wrong. Numbers 4 and 5 are correct; the rest don't exist or are not authored by those people.