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Soundslice caught OpenAI’s bot telling users about a fake music notation feature—then built it.

On Monday, sheet music platform Soundslice says it developed a new feature after discovering that ChatGPT was incorrectly telling users the service could import ASCII tablature —a text-based guitar notation format the company had never supported. When Holovaty tested ChatGPT, he discovered the source of the confusion: The AI model was instructing users to create Soundslice accounts and use the platform to import ASCII tabs for audio playback—a feature that didn't exist. As prediction machines, large language models trained on massive text datasets can easily produce outputs that seem plausible but are completely inaccurate.

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