Challenge: Existing studies have not studied the performance of intent classifiers against hard-negative out-of-scope utterances.
Approach: They propose to generate hard-negative OOS data using ChatGPT and evaluate them against three benchmark intent classifiers.
Outcome: The proposed method improves classifiers' robustness against hard-negative out-of-scope utterances and general OOS data.

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