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> I don't think ChatGPT is more likely to harm a person with misinformation than just plain Google or YouTube would. When Googling I immediately see alternativ

> I don't think ChatGPT is more likely to harm a person with misinformation than just plain Google or YouTube would. When Googling I immediately see alternative sources, which makes it simpler to see if it is a solitary opinion or at least a repeated one (which doesn't say it's true, but better than LLMs, which jsut "invent" it) and Ingot a source I can verify, by looking at other articles from the same place, judging their argumentation (is it consistent?) and so on which helps a lot to verify. With ChatGPT I only get some text, which I can't judge for autneticity in any way, without other domain knowledge. That said: These days I often start my research on some LLM, collect things I can base further research on. (Finding out, what even to Google for) YouTube is a very different beast and with few exceptions useless for deeper research (but good for some light high-level stuff)

mewpmewp2 2y ago
> When Googling I immediately see alternative sources, which makes it simpler to see if it is a solitary opinion or at least a repeated one If you are the type of person to consider alternative sources, I don't think you are the type of person to be unable to take what ChatGPT says with a grain of salt. As I understand the harm is feared to be around people who would take everything as 100% truth without questioning. If I use ChatGPT to learn about a new topic I don't have domain knowledge on, there's many different pieces of learnings I get, and if something seems off I can verify with Google. But ChatGPT if I don't understand some concept, I can still ask it to immediately ELI5 this, combining with 3 other conditions, that I could never search in Google. Say I need to buy some product, and I tell ChatGPT that I'm looking for a combination of A, B, C and D. ChatGPT based on that will offer me what might match me the best. It's a beginning point for me to understand those products. In Google I wouldn't be able to get such a personalised recommendation. I won't buy the product without first confirming about the product in Google myself and YouTube videos reviewing the product. So overall yeah, same as your last few paragraphs. If I was to look for a car with very good acceleration and ask ChatGPT to according to conditions A, B, C give me 10 best matching cars with highest acceleration and then roughly predict what their accelerations are, I wouldn't expect the acceleration prediction to be factual, and it may depend a lot, but like you said yourself, it's an amazing starting point. In fact this is how I very frequently start nowadays with buying a product. I'll ask ChatGPT to provide me with a table of products matching my criteria and assigning a rating in different categories in the columns. It's just about determining the order of where I would start to look into. To me the fact that we are able to do things like that is just so amazing. I do the same things with my health issues. I ask it to give a list od potential diagnoses, probabilities and reasoning. It doesn't mean I will fully trust it, but it is amazing place to start from if the issue is not doctor worthy or it takes too much time to get an appointment. It also helps me to prepare for the appointment. In many cases ChatGPT is accurate and I am able to research it before so I will be able to understand the doctor bettet and waste less of their time.

mewpmewp2 2y ago

> When Googling I immediately see alternative sources, which makes it simpler to see if it is a solitary opinion or at least a repeated one If you are the type of person to consider alternative sources, I don't think you are the type of person to be unable to take what ChatGPT says with a grain of salt. As I understand the harm is feared to be around people who would take everything as 100% truth without questioning. If I use ChatGPT to learn about a new topic I don't have domain knowledge on, there's many different pieces of learnings I get, and if something seems off I can verify with Google. But ChatGPT if I don't understand some concept, I can still ask it to immediately ELI5 this, combining with 3 other conditions, that I could never search in Google. Say I need to buy some product, and I tell ChatGPT that I'm looking for a combination of A, B, C and D. ChatGPT based on that will offer me what might match me the best. It's a beginning point for me to understand those products. In Google I wouldn't be able to get such a personalised recommendation. I won't buy the product without first confirming about the product in Google myself and YouTube videos reviewing the product. So overall yeah, same as your last few paragraphs. If I was to look for a car with very good acceleration and ask ChatGPT to according to conditions A, B, C give me 10 best matching cars with highest acceleration and then roughly predict what their accelerations are, I wouldn't expect the acceleration prediction to be factual, and it may depend a lot, but like you said yourself, it's an amazing starting point. In fact this is how I very frequently start nowadays with buying a product. I'll ask ChatGPT to provide me with a table of products matching my criteria and assigning a rating in different categories in the columns. It's just about determining the order of where I would start to look into. To me the fact that we are able to do things like that is just so amazing. I do the same things with my health issues. I ask it to give a list od potential diagnoses, probabilities and reasoning. It doesn't mean I will fully trust it, but it is amazing place to start from if the issue is not doctor worthy or it takes too much time to get an appointment. It also helps me to prepare for the appointment. In many cases ChatGPT is accurate and I am able to research it before so I will be able to understand the doctor bettet and waste less of their time.