We all know by now that ChatGPT is full of incorrect data but I trusted it will no go wrong after I asked for a list of sci-fi books recommendations (short stories anthologies in Spanish mostly) including book names, editorial, print year and of course ISBN.

Some of the books do exist but the majority are nowhere to be found. I pick the one that caught my interest the most and contacted the editorial directly after I did not find it in their website or anywhere else.

This is what they replied (Google Translate):


ChatGPT got it wrong.

We don’t have any books with that title.

In the ISBN that has given you the last digit is incorrect. And the correct one (9788477028383) corresponds to “The Holy Fountain” by Henry James.

Nor have we published any science fiction anthologies in the last 25 years.


I quick search in the “old site” shows that others have experienced the same with ChatGPT and ISBN searches… For some reason I thought it will no go wrong in this case, but it did.

  • Cabeza2000@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    This is just an anecdotal post, not a complain. No need to take it as seriously as you seem to take it… :)

    • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      For our entertainment, you should ask Chat GPT what stories are in those anthologies and give you short summaries of each story.