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Jolene Tan

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Singapore, Singapore

Website

http://www.jolenetan.org

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Fiction

Member Since

February 2014

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Jolene Tan is a writer from Singapore who lives in England. She has also lived in Germany.

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ChatGPT gets books wrong: a chronicle

I asked ChatGPT some questions about books. I tried to pick old books, in the public domain, which have been analysed to death, so as not to confound the picture with new and evolving information.

“What did Jude write on the college wall?”

The LLM correctly identified that I was referring to the Thomas Hardy novel Jude the Obscure, but then invented a story (despite being explicitly asked about a c

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	After The Inquiry 3.93 avg rating — 182 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Certain Exposure 3.84 avg rating — 183 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Singapore Citizens' Agenda by New Naratif, Kirsten Han (Goodreads Author), Mohan Dutta 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saturday's Surprisingly Super-Duper Lesson it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For her and Nurul merely to share a meal cooked in their own kitchen was a triumph; to wake up together each morning a luxury.”
― Jolene Tan, A Certain Exposure

tags: debut, fiction, lgbt, novel, singapore

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“Saying nothing at all, whatever the circumstances, was their established mode of shared existence.”
― Jolene Tan, A Certain Exposure

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“These doors opened in further questions. Though she perceived, sharply, the necessity of action, its closer contours were shrouded in the fog of her own intentions.”
― Jolene Tan, A Certain Exposure

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