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?
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.
@sleepingbearcat
I do my research the old-fashioned way, I look things up.