Back in 6th grade ('60s) my teacher purposely used a word none of us knew. I was the only student in the class who pulled out my dictionary & looked it up. He tossed me a candy bar and mumbled, "it's always a brunette". Seems he did this every year just to see who, if anyone, would look the word up.
There's an author I love by the name of Jim Butcher who loves to throw a bunch of unused words into his novels. I don't look them all up, sometimes I go back and forget which one it was, but I do like that he does it and sometimes I do look them up!
ps. Wikipedia is so overlooked. But it's typically current, it cites sources, includes moderator communities for every topic AND has a discussions and history section to get a peek at debated topics within an article.
Not flawless but certainly better than chatGPT which is a source black box.
My grandmother sold World Book encyclopedias for a time, and the family adopted the World Book slogan as a motto, an ethos which endures today in my children:
One of the best compliments I've ever gotten in over 30 years of preschool teaching was from a four year old: "Yvette knows everything. And, if she doesn't, she looks it up."
THANK YOU! Apply critical thinking! - Headlines are often clickbait (I accidentally typed that as "headlies", and I think I should've left it like that)
Love it! I can’t count how often I see videos with people saying a word and going “I don’t know if that’s how you pronounce it.” Uh…you have a device in your pocket that literally has a dictionary in it! Look it up!!
(Not saying it's "research," but sometimes I feel like a dinosaur just having a hard bound copy of Roget's Thesaurus - 5th Edition, or course - on my desk.)
When I learned people used chatGPT AS their google, like type stuff in and then what it says they just believe because 'it did the research for me' I genuine had to go lie down. As a library employee who works in reference, as New Media and Communication degree holder, as a person with a BRAIN,
I know it's probably weird, but I am really proud of the fact I never used chatgpt (or any generative AI), that's not shoved into my face like google AI overviews. Heck even in college, everyone be using chatgpt but I never cheated u.u
Lol my favorite thing to do is fact check people at work. Not because I like keeping ignorance in check (I do) but because I’m always genuinely curious when I hear something I don’t know about.
I saw the clean version and started to ask where the dirty version is cause I wanted to keep the link on hand, then I said “let me not get cussed out for not looking it the fuck up.”
and if google/search engines are giving you conflicting information that obviously aren't apart of the discussion please ask instead of assuming the worst.
Rare to see such wisdom these days, and I am thrilled to see someone who is unafraid to use a brilliant mind to encourage all the people who could use a boost. Bravo♥️🌞♥️💃🏻
Such a terrific message! Sadly, however, many viewers (myself often included) just don't know how or WHERE to research a given story.
This is especially true for political posts, which are often, shall we say, "embellished" to convey a given OPINION over the relevant facts!
Try GroundNews, folks!
I have installed a browser plugin to remove the AI summary because I don't want that necessary contamination in my life. It's too easy to read a sentence of the nonsense while scrolling past, and start believing something that's not true.
I'm a reference assistant at a library, so I feel your pain. My actual job is helping people research (when I'm not helping old folks with technology; not clowning them, I LOVE helping them with tech!) and it must blow some folks brains to know we still use microfilms but wouldn't use chatGPT.
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That was brilliant.
Not flawless but certainly better than chatGPT which is a source black box.
“We never guess, we look it up”
And thank you for bringing AI into the conversation 🙌🏻
(Not saying it's "research," but sometimes I feel like a dinosaur just having a hard bound copy of Roget's Thesaurus - 5th Edition, or course - on my desk.)
But hey, I use it maybe three times per month.
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This is especially true for political posts, which are often, shall we say, "embellished" to convey a given OPINION over the relevant facts!
Try GroundNews, folks!
I ❤️ it!!! 🫠💙
Bravo!
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we need more dinosaurs like you, like a whole herd