Using ChatGPT like it’s a search engine is so fucking embarrassing. Total ignorance of what it can and can’t do, total reliance on a game of telephone led by a machine that doesn’t know what is and isn’t fact.
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and i'm sure it doesn't help that the most-used search engine started putting gen ai answers at the very top of their own results 🙃. i would guess the former was happening first and maybe even had some effect on the latter, but still.
When I asked it to summarize my career, something I do on my publicly available professional website and my LinkedIn profile, it insisted I was a character in Destiny 2 and not a real person. It made up an entire lorebook about me. How can you ever trust this thing?
I keep forgetting that it's a search engine because in my mind, I think of it as software people use to shittily write things for them or to parse documents, not like actually look up information. I'd assumed people wouldn't be that stupid for some reason...
I have my students do an assignment on what they thought they knew about AI, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM told me this year that they thought it was a search engine. ALL OF THEM. I'm so mad.
Not to mention that using ChatGPT to search rather than Google uses ~10x the power consumption.
I tend to use AI-anything to demonstrate why it's not the panacea people think it is. My favorite example is feeding the prompt "a photograph of
I was searching for games that had been localized into English for the first time on Switch and Gemini proudly told me that along with Seiken Densetsu 3 and Live a Live, Mother 3 was also finally localized and is on Switch right now! Imagine my surprise 😂
doing that has got to atrophy your critical thinking skills
not to make googling stuff sound noble, but going out there, looking up stuff, discerning useful from useless information sounds a lot healthier than simply accepting the answer a machine spits out
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I tend to use AI-anything to demonstrate why it's not the panacea people think it is. My favorite example is feeding the prompt "a photograph of
not to make googling stuff sound noble, but going out there, looking up stuff, discerning useful from useless information sounds a lot healthier than simply accepting the answer a machine spits out