Rytr or Wrong Answer?

I have been researching GPT-3 search engines for some time. Hoping that a free version would appear. I came across Rytr by chance in an article about a GPT-3 search engine. I assumed it was a wordprocessor that worked alongside a GPT-3 search engine to rephrase articles to prevent plagiarism.

I tested using Rytr with a simple query. Who is the Isdal Woman?

I used some keywords: Bergen because of the location and Aske and Osland because they had researched the topic before. It then provided me with an answer about her being a 1970 Norwegian mystery blah blah blah… but then it said something quite startling. It said the Isdal Woman was Linda Pedersen.

I knew it couldn’t be the right answer. But now it was my job to prove it wrong.

From my research, Linda Pedersen was a missing Norwegian teenage girl in 1982, not 1970. She disappeared in Finland and then sent a postcard to her family from Sweden to say she was alive. But now I was intrigued. I know GPT-3 search engines can add 2 + 2 to make 5. Was Linda Pedersen in some way linked to the Isdal Woman story?

All research shows that GPT-3 via Rytr was able to create a fake story about Linda Pedersen being linked to the Isdal woman story. A search engine that creates fiction is interesting.

A colleague used Rytr (with its GPT-3 search) to check the Oslo Plaza woman case. Again Rytr created fictional details about the Oslo Plaza woman. This time it was much easier to refute the answer it gave. For example, it said she was born in 1995 when she died in 1995. It also said after that she attended Oxford University and she was a director of the Oslo Plaza — when she was already dead.

I later used Rytr (with some more free use) to ask it who killed Norwegian taxi driver Gudmund Stenersen in 1972. It said Gudmund Stenersen was shot in December 1972. I was disappointed with that answer because he went missing in July 1972. There was no newspaper or wiki account stating December 1972 or that he was shot. Rytr had created a fiction about the date and method of his death.

What is surprising is that the AI GPT-3 search engine is able to create a fantasy story about a dead person. Imagine if Google search said JFK was still alive.

For crime mysteries, the GPT-3 truth setting is set to zero.