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• dependencyInjection@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It depends what you’re using it for as to whether you need to fact check stuff.

  I’m a software developer and if I can’t remember how to do an inner join in SQL then I can easier ask ChatGPT to do it for me and I will know if it is right or not as this is my field of expertise.

  If I’m asking it how to perform open heart surgery on my cat, then sure I’m probably going to want several second opinions as that is not my area of expertise.

  When using a calculator do you use two different calculators to check that the first one isn’t lying?

  Also, you made a massive assumption that the stuff OP was using it for was something that warranted fact checking.

  I can see why you would use it. Why would I want to search Google for inner joins sql when it is going to give me so many false links that don’t give me the info in need in a concise manner.

  Even time wasting searches have just been ruined. Example: Top Minecraft Java seeds 1.20. Will give me pages littered with ads or the awful page 1-10 that you must click through.

  Many websites are literally unusable at this point and I use ad blockers and things like consent-o-matic. But there are still pop up ads, sub to our newsletter, scam ads etc. so much so that I’ll just leave the site and forego learning the new thing I wanted to learn.

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• Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s pretty trivial to fact check an answer… You should start using this kind of bots more. Check perplexity.ai for a free version

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  • GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s pretty trivial to fact check an answer

    People don't do it though and often parrot bullshit.

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    • Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      People who do so aren’t smart enough to use internet anyway. With or without AI it wouldn’t change anything for them, they stay stupid

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  • madnificent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Perplexity.ai has been my go to for this reason.

    It often brings up bad solutions to a problem and checking the sources it references shows it regulary misses the gist of these sources.

    There sources it selects are often not the ones I end up using. They are starting point, but not the best starting point.

    What it is good for is for finding content when I don’t know the terminology of the domain. It is a starting point ready to lead me astray with exquisitely written content.

    Find trustworthy sources and use them.

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    • Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is more of a proof of concept at the moment, but it shows the potential

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s what’s usually gets said about lots of alternative fusion energy generation methods that later turn out to be impossible to have net-positive energy generation.

        And this is just one example. Another example: tons of medical compounds end up dropper at the medical testing stage because of their nasty side effects or it turns out their “positive” effects are indistinguisheable from the placebo effect.

        The point being that you can’t actually extrapolative from “neat concept that shows potential” even to merelly “will works”, much less to “will be a great success”.

        PS: Equally, one can’t just say it’s not going to be a great success - being a “neat concept that shows potential” has a pretty low informational content when it comes to predicting the future, worse so when there are people monetarilly heavilly invested into it who have a strong interest in making it look like a “neat concept that shows potential” whilst hiding any early stage problem.

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• Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The new release of GPT-4 searches Bing, reads the results, summarizes, and provides sources, so it’s easier to fact check than ever if you need to.

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