When I tried it in the past, I kinda didn’t take it seriously because everything was confined to its instance, but now, there’s full-featured global search and proper federation everywhere? Wow, I thought I heard there were some technical obstacles making it very unlikely, but now it’s just there and works great! I asked ChatGPT and it says this feature was added 5 years ago! Really? I’m not sure how I didn’t notice this sooner. Was it really there for so long? With flairs showing original instance where video comes from and everything?

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      Because they know it’s not accurate and explicitly mention it so you know where this information comes from.

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          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

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              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.

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                No, it sounds like a mindless statistics machine because that’s what it is. Even stupid people have reasons for saying and doing things.

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                  If those people are inaccurately spouting ‘facts’ from some article they can barely remember, yeah that’s pretty much exactly the same output.

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                  Yes, stupid people’s reason is because Trump said so, so it must be true