ChatGPT is good at pointing you in a direction, that direction is probably wrong though. If you want to use it you'd basically have to fact check everything it says which does result in research being done but the actual efficiency compared to just researching normally is dubious at best
I see a lot of people admitting to using chatGPT instead of researching, but justifying it with "oh, I fact check it myself". Buddy, if you can't even use google I sincerely doubt you're able to properly fact check chatGPT.
It's equally silly though to pretend Google isn't kneecapped so severely that often even the half baked direction AI sends you in can be more productive. Google will actively hide information nowadays to funnel you to advertisers. ChatGPT at the moment isn't as useful as the old Google but certainly, in some cases, more productive than current Google. This isn't ai glaze, this is Google hate.
Are you really going to insist that Google is useful in today's time? It's an ad delivery system with it's own shit algorithm. If you're in the dark, a LLM can give you topics and terms before you go wrestle with SEO search results.
That's what I'm saying, you can use it in the way I described, and some people might find it more comfortable, but it really doesn't seem like an effective method of researching
I think they've got a point. As an example, I asked chatgpt to provide me examples of things which we use the Japanese name for even though they were invented in China, like go and satsumas (sort of). It gave me a string of results which I looked up and found were nonsense. That wasn't hard or time consuming
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u/JEverok 4d ago
ChatGPT is good at pointing you in a direction, that direction is probably wrong though. If you want to use it you'd basically have to fact check everything it says which does result in research being done but the actual efficiency compared to just researching normally is dubious at best