Apologetics that uses condescension / insult

[LM77 (Liam Maguire)]

@St.Roymond

I’ve found I can get good answers from ChatGPT by requesting that sources be provided in standard academic format such as a paper for publication or an encyclopedia would give. When I’ve just asked for published sources it’s tried to slip me some total inventions; I think requesting the strict protocol keeps it honest. My suspicion is that it has read far too many supermarket tabloids where such dishonesty is common and so it sees that as acceptable.

No that’s not the issue, and it isn’t about honesty/dishonesty either. It is more that LLM generative AI like ChatGPT are not intended for academic research they are intended to generate information based on the prompt. ChatGPT has never claimed to be a effective research tool.

Before you click “send”: The Information Literacy Thread

Edit: I’ve removed the quote link since @klw shared something they found on FaceBook, and my post address that content rather than anything klw has said. It’s funny in a way, AI creators are not marketing their programme’s content as reliable. In fact, if you ask chatGPT it will tell you: My responses are generated based on patterns in the text data I’ve been trained on, up until my last knowledge update in September 2021. While I strive for accuracy, I’m not infallible and can’t guarantee …