Except, I’m constantly trying to figure out what’s right or wrong. At least wikipedia has people fighting about the truth, LLMs just state incorrect shit as truth and then stares at you.
Ask chatgpt the question while outlining your need for sources and direct quotes. (30 secs)
The bot searches. (30 secs to 10 minute depending on if deep research is used. This is free time you can spend doing something else productive, even the same or similar tasks on your end)
Click the links and ctrl-f to find the quote or keywords if its a large document. Verify it isn’t bullshit. (1 min)
4a. It is valid, the link and relevant quotes are added to a work document to be used later (1 min)
4b. It is not valid, the legwork must be done yourself (10-20 minutes, maybe more)
Maybe its because I’m coming from a research perspective, where you need to put sources on everything. I would never take something chatgpt gave me at face value and dump it into a doc. That being said, I feel like the argument boils down to “since the tool can be used stupidly, I won’t try to use it properly”.
And there are many uses for a variety of things. I have it build me summaries of papers when I make a bank of them for example. I just finished reading the paper, so I can verify and modify the summary. I could write it but I dont want to be bothered trying to figure out the best way to give the most info in one paragraph. Chatgpt already writes better hyper condensed blocks of texts then me anyways.
Its good at making tables too and its hard to make mistakes when I’m giving it all the data in the first place.
Except, I’m constantly trying to figure out what’s right or wrong. At least wikipedia has people fighting about the truth, LLMs just state incorrect shit as truth and then stares at you.
Ask chatgpt the question while outlining your need for sources and direct quotes. (30 secs)
The bot searches. (30 secs to 10 minute depending on if deep research is used. This is free time you can spend doing something else productive, even the same or similar tasks on your end)
Click the links and ctrl-f to find the quote or keywords if its a large document. Verify it isn’t bullshit. (1 min)
4a. It is valid, the link and relevant quotes are added to a work document to be used later (1 min)
4b. It is not valid, the legwork must be done yourself (10-20 minutes, maybe more)
Maybe its because I’m coming from a research perspective, where you need to put sources on everything. I would never take something chatgpt gave me at face value and dump it into a doc. That being said, I feel like the argument boils down to “since the tool can be used stupidly, I won’t try to use it properly”.
And there are many uses for a variety of things. I have it build me summaries of papers when I make a bank of them for example. I just finished reading the paper, so I can verify and modify the summary. I could write it but I dont want to be bothered trying to figure out the best way to give the most info in one paragraph. Chatgpt already writes better hyper condensed blocks of texts then me anyways.
Its good at making tables too and its hard to make mistakes when I’m giving it all the data in the first place.