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Skye McDavid
@skyemcdavid.com

Yep. When ChatGPT first came out, I tried to see if I could use it for phylogenetic matrix editing. And it was less than useless. I asked it to pre-populate an OTU with ? states and it returned a corrupted file. Then I asked it to generate a string of a certain number of question marks so

Prof Susie Maidment@tweetisaurus.bsky.social

ChatGPT is unable to take my matrix and add in characters to that they are correctly formatted for upload into Morphobank. Which leads me to wonder (1) what is the actual point in AI if it can't do this and (2) if it can't do basic text editing, how is it going to take over the world?

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