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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 01:52:58 JST Evan Prodromou

   This is a really interesting poll.

   I'm an about-weekly. I use it for cocktail recipes, cooking, gardening, and research for work and school.

   I've found it really helpful. I almost never use the output directly; it's almost always for research.

   Occasionally I'll share the content directly with colleagues; "here's what chatGPT says." I haven't ever passed off the output as my own work.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 01:56:53 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I think for me it replaces my previous research process: complicated Google queries, reading through Wikipedia articles and websites, and then writing it up as bullet points.

     I know a lot of people are upset that chatGPT doesn't credit original authors, but I wasn't doing that in my previous work for private research anyway. ??♂️

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 05:59:22 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • shoofle

     @shoofle yes, and I'm doing that with ChatGPT, too. I use it as a jumping off point for research, and don't take it's output as gospel.

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     shoofle (shoofle@elekk.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 05:59:24 JST shoofle

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     @evan i mean, you might not have been citing them, but you were probably evaluating their trustworthiness on some level subconsciously, right? like you're not going to trust a fox news or breitbart article

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 06:11:18 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • shoofle

     @shoofle sure, but I don't need to ensure that its recommendations for berry bushes in southern Quebec's climate come from unimpeachable sources. I just look up those species on Wikipedia to double-check.

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     shoofle (shoofle@elekk.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 06:11:19 JST shoofle

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     @evan well yeah, but you can't examine chatgpt's sources.