And as most chatbots list sources, you can always check them out yourself and cut out the middleman. Most of academia - some 45% do that. Another 45% don’t even bother. A lone 10% still do things the old fashioned way. In any case, you’re not alone in relying on AI to find obscure information.
With search engines becoming increasingly infested with low-quality and obvious-slop sites, relying on the same methods as the slopmasters isn’t even a big stain on your morality. Because of it was, the slopmasters would be drowning in the ink required, and billionaires would already have caused another biblical flood of it.
Firstly: I’m not the downvoter.
Secondly: you didn’t have to - you chose to.
And as most chatbots list sources, you can always check them out yourself and cut out the middleman. Most of academia - some 45% do that. Another 45% don’t even bother. A lone 10% still do things the old fashioned way. In any case, you’re not alone in relying on AI to find obscure information.
With search engines becoming increasingly infested with low-quality and obvious-slop sites, relying on the same methods as the slopmasters isn’t even a big stain on your morality. Because of it was, the slopmasters would be drowning in the ink required, and billionaires would already have caused another biblical flood of it.
Did you know that 87% of all statistics are made up on the spot?
60% of the time it works every time
49% of us think we’re not divided.
Half the population can’t read statistics and the other third choose not to.
Academia calls these heuristics, not statistics.