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I see a lot of upsides to the widespread recognition among the general public that not everything you read should be blindly trusted - just extend that skeptici
by photochemsyn 4y ago
I see a lot of upsides to the widespread recognition among the general public that not everything you read should be blindly trusted - just extend that skepticism to the leading approved media outlets and the pronouncements of governments, not just to what people write in their blogs and on social media platforms. Of course, blind faith in the pronouncements of ChatGPT is no better.
With ChatGPT, however, you can immediately ask for clarification of a claim, which is often very useful for getting more detailed information. ChatGPT is probably not deliberately trying to misinform you, at least not on questions about programming techniques and other simple informational matters, unlike many human actors with vested interests in spinning information to improve their own personal agenda (*though I haven't yet asked it for a full exposition of Flat Earth Theory, so who knows?). If it seems a bit iffy, run what seem to be the main keywords in the response through a search engine to see what comes up.
The fundamental issue is that all humans need to learn how to curate and test their information flows, at least for self-consistency if nothing else. The loss of trust on the Internet, from this perspective, is something we all should be cheering for - healthy skepticism is not something to worry about, unless your business is peddling propaganda for some interest or other, and your success relies on the audience being gullible and incapable of rational thought and critical analysis of claims.