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  • I generally get ask it to provide sources for its work, and then show the students that most of the time those sources don’t actually exist.

    Like it’ll have a real author, and a real journal, but a fake article name that the author supposedly wrote.

    Or a real website that 404’s - once is fair enough, websites change, but when ten of the sourced websites are all 404s that’s not right. You also try to search for the article that’s meant to be on the website, but even the website doesn’t think it exists.

    I’ve even been in an argument with Bing where it was adamant that an article existed on a university website, and it shut down the conversation with me when I kept pointing out I couldn’t find it.



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    7 months ago

    I’ve also found (I’m a teacher) this generation is far less proficient at search. They (generalisation) type a whole question into Google, and read the Google created text box to get their answer, taking it as gospel - regardless of if Google has completely gone off the mark.

    Contrast this to a generation that grew up with needing to refine search terms with key words, who can find far more relevant info quicker.

    It’s hard to get them out of the rut and teach them to be more critical of sources. They’re so used to having what they need served straight up for them. LLMs (AI) are feeding into this more - they struggle to believe that AI hallucinations exist until I show them.

    Again all this is generalisation - when I say ‘they’ I don’t mean ‘all’.


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    7 months ago

    Typo in article:

    If you are however willing to except the possibility that you are wrong.

    Except should be ‘accept’.

    Not trying to be annoying, but I know people will often find that as a reason to disregard academic arguments.