Asking ChatGPT isn’t research.
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Xkdrxodrixkr@feddit.org 10 months agoBecause they’d still like to know? it’s generally expected to do some research on your own before asking other people, and inform them of what you’ve already tried
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
ChatGPT is a moderately useful tertiary source. Quoting Wikipedia isn’t research, but using Wikipedia to find primary sources and reading those is a good faith effort. Likewise, asking ChatGPT in and of itself isn’t research, but it can be a valid research aid if you use it to find relevant primary sources.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
At least some editor will usually make sure Wikipedia is correct. There’s nobody ensuring chatGPT is correct.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Just using the “information” it regurgitates isn’t very useful, which is why I didn’t recommend doing that. Whether the information summarized by Wikipedia and ChatGPT is accurate really isn’t important, you use those tools to find primary sources.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
AI seems to think it’s always right but in reality it is seldom correct.
iopq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sounds like every human it’s been trained on
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
No, it sounds like a mindless statistics machine because that’s what it is. Even stupid people have reasons for saying and doing things.
iopq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, stupid people’s reason is because Trump said so, so it must be true
Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
If those people are inaccurately spouting ‘facts’ from some article they can barely remember, yeah that’s pretty much exactly the same output.