I’ve had an issue where GPT-4 will say it can’t do a task and then after insisting several times it will do it. For example, today we were going through making a number of Chicago Style citations for a bibliopgraphy. For one of my books, GPT-4 repeatedly said that I should contact the publisher to get the information, then when I asked whether it was unable to get the information, it provided a perfect citation.
Wanted to post in case anyone else has had this issue. It did most of the citations perfectly, but occasionally seemed to get stuck saying something like:
“For a detailed Chicago style citation and more specific insights from the book, checking the publication directly or consulting a comprehensive database for bibliographic details would be advisable.”