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Question for the #writing community: have you had any luck using the various AI bots to improve research (such as confirming aspects of your setting, like how common flashlights might have been in the 1940s)? I end up doing the regular Google searching regardless to confirm the answers, myself...so that nullifies the time savings. Has anybody found one they trust and that provides citations for their output?
@mcfate see this is why I double check what it says using a traditional search. I was hoping I was missing something, but it seems perhaps not.
I do my research the old-fashioned way, I look things up.
@sleepingbearcat I would sooner have a photocopier, or an old mimeo machine help my writing.
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Anyone who uses generative machine learning to "research" or "learn" anything is delusional.
None of them can be "trusted". They all hallucinate.
When ChatGPT provides "citations", they're lies a good part of the time.