I remember when “research” actually meant something. Now it just means "throw it into the black box and get some info that has a 50/50 chance of being completely made up "
For dipping your toes into a new topic I think it’s perfectly fine. It helps to provide useful pointers for further “research” (in a sense that would meet your requirement) and also manages to provide mostly accurate overviews. But sure, to really dive into this, LLMs Like ChatGPT and co. are just some low-level assistants at best and one should go through the material themselves.
Oh boy, I sure do love the colloquialization of language and how those who were raised on a monostatic definition get upset about their favourite words becoming dynamic.
It’s all become quite convoluted now with all the other shit out there but they do actually serve well as a research tool in a more intuitive way than a search engine can
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I remember when “research” actually meant something. Now it just means "throw it into the black box and get some info that has a 50/50 chance of being completely made up "
jfrnz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You can ask CharGPT for sources. TBH it’s often a much better search engine than Google, although that’s not hard nowadays.
Zacryon@feddit.org 3 months ago
Perplexity does a good job as LLM-search-engine-combo.
Zacryon@feddit.org 3 months ago
For dipping your toes into a new topic I think it’s perfectly fine. It helps to provide useful pointers for further “research” (in a sense that would meet your requirement) and also manages to provide mostly accurate overviews. But sure, to really dive into this, LLMs Like ChatGPT and co. are just some low-level assistants at best and one should go through the material themselves.
Zozano@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Oh boy, I sure do love the colloquialization of language and how those who were raised on a monostatic definition get upset about their favourite words becoming dynamic.
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s all become quite convoluted now with all the other shit out there but they do actually serve well as a research tool in a more intuitive way than a search engine can