When someone writes or says that they use ChatGPT for a search engine, that just tells me they aren’t serious about facts or education. Anyone who invests two m

When someone writes or says that they use ChatGPT for a search engine, that just tells me they aren’t serious about facts or education. Anyone who invests two minutes in crosschecking will easily find disturbing misinformation in its “search results.” Meanwhile, Duck Duck Go provides reasonable sources. After rather extensive testing, my heuristic is never to ask ChatGPT for facts about anything that can’t be readily verified— and even then don’t trust it until it is verified. The act of verification makes ChatGPT too time consuming to be worth using for education. It’s useful when I’m trying to solve certain programming problems, though.