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Why do people bring this up every fucking time?
Because they know it's not accurate and explicitly mention it so you know where this information comes from.
Then why post it at all?
Because 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
Asking ChatGPT isn’t research.
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.
At least some editor will usually make sure Wikipedia is correct. There’s nobody ensuring chatGPT is correct.
AI seems to think it’s always right but in reality it is seldom correct.
Sounds like every human it's been trained on
No, it sounds like a mindless statistics machine because that’s what it is. Even stupid people have reasons for saying and doing things.
Why post anything? Because they wanted to, the same way you posted something that you felt was worth adding. For me it wasn't adding anything. Nonetheless I answer you. Because I wanted to.
Buddy, it's nap time. Catch you in a couple hours when you're feeling better.
A nap does sound good.
People also say they googled, unfortunately
Not the same thing.
google allows for the possibility that the user was able to think critically about sources that a search returned
chapGPT is drunk uncle confidently stating a thing they heard third hand from Janet in accounting and then taking him at his word
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They are? This is why you use a pop up blocker…
but at least your drunk uncle won't boil the oceans in the process too
How dare you, my drunk uncle is completely capable of boiling the oceans! He was even boasting about it at our last family dinner!
You’re giving people using google too much credit.
Unfortunately now Google is ChatGPT. It provides its own shitty AI answers, and its search results have been corrupted by an ocean of slop.
I assumed it was bwing used the current common usage for using a web search, like how kleenex is used for any facial tittle, not literally Google the search engine.
Speaking of literal, Google is putting Gemini results before search results, not using chatGPT.
People before ChatGPT thought critically of things on Google as much as they do ChatGPT today.
"I used chatgpt"
Honest answer? It's easy and it won't judge you for asking stupid questions.
Edit - people are replying as if I said I do this. I'm sorry for the confusion. I don't. This is why I see other people do it. When it comes to the general population, most people don't care, they just want easy.
Search engines and Wikipedia don't judge you for asking stupid questions either.
Almost all content has been hyper-optimized to rank well on Google, not to provide good answers for humans
No it'll just hallucinate shit that'll make you look dumb when you go and state it as fact.
Yep, agree. That's why I don't personally use it.
Because people are dumber than chatgpt.
It also proves we don't have a 50/50 split in intelligence. We need to look at the mean, then we'll see most people are just plain fucking dumb