I have been using ChatGPT to help me research articles. I find it very useful (in the same way as Wikipedia is useful) to access simple facts, but it does filter the information it returns and it does wrap everything up in virtue signalling. There are times when it has not returned information I know to be true, so I have had to reword questions to force it to give me the information i am looking for. I asked it what silica detoxes and it told me nothing, but when I asked it if silica detoxes aluminium, it told me yes and explained the mechanism. When I asked it what has been shown to detox graphene oxide, it told me nothing, but in researching things that I know detox heavy metals it speculated that two of them might detox graphene oxide - so I stumbled over them by accident. It can only be A tool for research, it cannot be THE tool to do research. And within its limits it is very helpful. It structures information well although it lacks some nuance in relation to language use.
I don't use it in any sort of active way.
If I notice that something is written by AI I just quickly skim it for information.
It will be useful as a tool and I don't know what it will mean if I can't tell the difference between it and a person.
Maybe if I can't tell the difference then that's my own personal failure.
I quickly get bored with the pedestrian pedagogy of AI, but it will be getting better even faster than I am deteriorating.
I have been using ChatGPT to help me research articles. I find it very useful (in the same way as Wikipedia is useful) to access simple facts, but it does filter the information it returns and it does wrap everything up in virtue signalling. There are times when it has not returned information I know to be true, so I have had to reword questions to force it to give me the information i am looking for. I asked it what silica detoxes and it told me nothing, but when I asked it if silica detoxes aluminium, it told me yes and explained the mechanism. When I asked it what has been shown to detox graphene oxide, it told me nothing, but in researching things that I know detox heavy metals it speculated that two of them might detox graphene oxide - so I stumbled over them by accident. It can only be A tool for research, it cannot be THE tool to do research. And within its limits it is very helpful. It structures information well although it lacks some nuance in relation to language use.