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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    23 hours ago

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

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        22 hours ago

        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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          AI seems to think it’s always right but in reality it is seldom correct.

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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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        Why post anything? Because they wanted to, the same way you posted something that you felt was worth adding. For me it wasn’t adding anything. Nonetheless I answer you. Because I wanted to.