Is ChatGPT a reliable research assistant? Building a books database

LLMs are good at processing unstructured data, like internet pages and research papers, and at generating structured output, like code and JSON files. The devil is in the generated details. If they aren&rsquo;t correct, what&rsquo;s the use? Testing the correctness of generated data is the goal of my informal experiment, which uses ChatGPT to build a database of information about classic books.…