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It looks a bit scary. Young people (in their 20-30ties) very often prefere to use the AI research engin than a traditional, slow, “academic” one. How can we be sure the results they get and quote in their papers are the right ones?

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Well judging by the examples here - because the fake ones are bullshit. it is a giant bullshit engine

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I got this comment from a friend

‘Superb. The brazenness of ChatGPT. It reminds me of a concept a Swedish friend introduced me to called "guy guessing" in which a man confidently provides the answer to something which he actually has no knowledge of.’ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/killgissa

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Great letter, Jackie! You made me laugh so hard.

When it comes to literature references, beware! Chat-GPT is really creative with titles, ISBNs, authors. I am already working on my fourth book ... lol

It is a wonderful assistant in helping me with tone of voice à la ... or to check my grammar/syntax (which I haven't asked it to correct).

What I did was to get more familiar with the prompts and I got nuggets.

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Thanks - yes. I don’t really know how to use it yet. It seems worse than useless at the moment.

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Well researched Jackie, I would have asked the Q and used the answer. Does this mean that as AI progresses, the world of knowledge will be filled with inaccurate facts, and how will we know what’s real and true?

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Thanks. I know - fact-checking ChatGPT takes longer than answering the question yourself. I think I’m probably not using it right - I wonder if it gives other people better answers?

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