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Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 3 days agoThere is no guarantee those sources say what the answer says, or indeed that they actually exist. Generators can and do assemble words into phrases that look like citations, but those sources don't exist. It's actually a problem for librarians, who keep getting accused of hiding nonexistent books "cited" by ChatGPT
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boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Oh you definitely have to double check. But what’s the point of sources if you don’t check them anyway?
And links in particular are super easy to check. Books and articles obviously less so