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s/used GPT/used Google

history rhymes

Those are not at all the same thing. You used a search engine to find something else which you’d then cite as the source of the information. No one would take your research seriously if you cited Google Search as the source.

I don’t understand if people trying to equate the two are doing so in bad faith to confuse everyone or are genuinely incapable of understanding the difference. Either reason is quite worrisome for our future.

I said rhymes. You are presenting argument against something which I did not write.

It's worth remembering though that it all drops down to trust anyway. What source do you consider trustworthy? Journalists write false stuff all the time (you may know some specific people you can trust), so that leaves research papers. Reliability of data there is higher than from a random sample on the web, but it is very far from something I would trust blindly.

Any human compiling data from different sources can also make a mistake. Can fail to use reason when it should be clear that the data is not consistent. I don't think there's any doubt that in some time, such error rate will be lower for large models than it is for humans.

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