• tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I haven’t used a search engine since I started using ChatGPT. It does all the heavy lifting for me.

    • hoot@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      I am concerned to think of all the terrible and just plain wrong information you have been given.

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        7 months ago

        Not concerned enough to back any of that accusation up with evidence.

        • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          Most of the time, information that you’re doing something wrong should be enough to prompt you to dig deeper into the matter. It’s not the job of perfect strangers to educate you.

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              7 months ago

              You should tattoo “I’m wrong but I don’t want to educate myself” on your forehead so people know not to waste their time.

              • unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org
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                7 months ago

                Lemmy has a tagging system, definitely recommend tagging this user so you get a warning that they might be wrong but don’t want to educate themselves, then you can just ignore them and move on with your day.

    • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      The problem with using it as a search engine is that if it doesn’t know the answer it commonly makes things up. I tried using it for work but it got details wrong enough to make it useless.

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        7 months ago

        You can’t trust search engine results either. It’s just another tool that you use to arrive at a conclusion. You still have to do work.

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          7 months ago

          You could in the past. About 6 years ago or so the top 3 results were almost always correct.

          Currently you can’t because of the AI generated content that gets things wrong the same way as using an AI as a search engine.