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I don't save my chats with it. I have asked it a lot of things on topics I'm familiar with and have gotten just enough errors in the responses as to make it unreliable for me to use. I recommend chatting with it and asking it questions on a topic you are an expert or at least intermediate at, and it should be easy to see where it is wrong.
When people trust it with stuff they can't spot the errors in, that's where the problem lies.
My problem with this is that the question was about learning English, and I use ChatGPT daily for this, and I find it surprisingly useful. On the other hand, no one in this thread can provide a concrete example where ChatGPT has lied to them while learning English, and people are dismissive of ChatGPT based on its performance in other topics and tasks.
I've never tried to trick it with questions about Modern English grammar but I've asked it about Old English and it gave me words that meant something else entirely. It would be the equivalent of saying how do you say "I am a warrior" in English and it saying "I am a building". The thing is, it is trained on the internet and it doesn't really know what is real and what is fake, what is real language and what is a dialect or slang, or being used incorrectly. It's no different than the Google algorithm that pulls up random Reddit or Quora articles when you ask a question. It's right often enough for you to think it's reliable but it's not. If it's wrong 10% of the time, that's a lot. Now I'm not saying that it's going to be as bad with English as a dead language like Old English, but it's not trained on just academic materials, it's learned everything, even incorporating joke posts into its knowledge.