Pedal History Is In Danger - ChatGPT Is Rewriting Fact — And It's Getting Worse

I've been messing around with AI and guitar history for a while now... and honestly, I had to film this. In this video, I sit down with ChatGPT and quiz it on guitar pedal history - the Tube Screamer, the Big Muff, the Maestro FZ-1, DOD, JHS, Jimi Hendrix's rig... the works. And what you're about to watch is kind of alarming. It hallucinates pedals that don't exist. It agrees with things I KNOW are wrong when I push back. It confidently states dates it can't actually source. And then when I ask it to prove anything... it can't. But here's the part that really gets me: these aren't just random errors. There's a feedback loop happening. AI reads what's on the internet, people repost what AI tells them, and AI reads that too. So the misinformation compounds. In 40 years, when someone wants to know who actually designed the first fuzz pedal - or what year the DOD 250 came out - this is what they're going to find. I'm not anti-AI. But I am pro-history. And if the people who actually know this stuff don't document it correctly, the "stochastic parrot" (look it up, it's a real term) is just going to keep filling in the gaps with plausible-sounding nonsense. Names like Revas Hobbs and Bob Meyer deserve to be in the record. Not buried under a hallucination. This one's for the nerds. You know who you are. --- Preorder Josh and Daniel Danger's new book, "Made on Earth for Rising Stars" https://thirdmanrecords.com/products/... Sites featured in this video: https://tonemachinesblog.com https://fuzzboxes.org https://effectsdatabase.com Josh's Substack: https://joshuaheathscott.substack.com Join our membership to get access to perks:    / @jhspedals   Join our text list for updates! https://jhspedals.pscrpt.io/9htn6O https://www.thejhsshow.com/ https://www.jhspedals.info/ JHS Fresh Clips:    / @jhsextra   #jhspedals #thejhsshow