"As local news outlet WalesOnline reports, the swimmers attempted to wade back from Sully Island, a rocky outcropping thousands of feet offshore, shortly before the tide came back in. The restaurant owner, Gordon Hadfield, got out his megaphone and yelled at them to turn back, which was likely lifesaving advice. The region has the second-highest tidal range in the world, at roughly 50 feet. In the summer, people are known to get caught out by rapidly rising tides."
""I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was," one of the swimmers told WalesOnline. "It said 9:30 am. So we were out on that side, and then as soon as you come back over, it was literally completely different." "A lesson learned for me," he added. Netizens were taken aback by the carelessness on display."
Two swimmers left Sully Island and relied on ChatGPT for low-tide times, receiving an incorrect time that left them stranded as the tide returned. Restaurant owner Gordon Hadfield used a megaphone to warn them to turn back, advice that likely saved their lives. The local tidal range is roughly 50 feet, the world's second-highest, and the Sully Island causeway can see tides rising up to eight miles per hour, creating rapidly changing summer conditions. The tech has a reputation for producing hallucinations and unreliable factual information, prompting public criticism about using chatbots for safety-critical data.
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