Raw LLM Responses

>It’s already at the point that you have to second guess every piece of information online. "If you see it online, it must be true!" I mean I jest, in part, but it has *always* been true that you have to second guess every piece of information online. Cross-referencing facts is how you determine their validity, and it has been the predominant method of doing so since roughly the Enlightenment. That said, the propensity for misinformation to spread is certainly a lot greater. One of the more alarming anecdotal accounts I've read recently is from a teacher who was having difficulty grading essays because the information referenced was simply false. So she sat down with some of the students to be like, "where are you getting that information from?" and they'd be like, "I looked it up," and she was like, "show me." And of course they would immediately open ChatGPT and ask it questions, rather than using a search engine. What makes this so concerning though, is that when the teacher tried to explain that ChatGPT isn't a search engine and that its responses aren't reliable, some students simply *refused to believe her*. Their trust in the power of computing and the all-knowing information highway, is such that they implicitly put more stock in the opinion of a chatbot AI than they do in that of real human beings employed to educate them. The amusing irony, for someone of my particular age, is that in the current state of the internet, arguable ***the only*** remotely trustworthy source of information is Wikipedia, because at least all of the information on Wikipedia is subject to review from the users at any time. That's more than you can say for most entrenched institutions at this point, let alone whatever AI bullshit people are getting fooled by.