RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

January 13, 2026 - 20:45 UTC

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Never for any reason, research or otherwise
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Iโ€™ve literally never even visited their website lmao
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Had some open because I wanted to see the craziest hallucinations I could get it to spit out, but eventually decided even that wasn't ethically sound.
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They used ChatGPT? And I've heard S5 suuuucked.

correlation is not causation, except when it absolutetly is
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Iโ€™m to the point where Iโ€™m ready to drive to the library for any research rather than even bother with Googling anything, much less using ChatGPT
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I found out my local library in my new area is only a half hour leisurely walk, and I am so stoked about it ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ’– they will send holds from any branch to mine to pick up! Luxury. Great use of my taxes.
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What did they do before 2022 or whenever ChatGPT was introduced?
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I've never had ANY "AI" thing open on my computers or phone
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It's so regular how AI users go "well sure, don't we all use chat gpt for some stuff?" It's kinda got the Joker mentality of NEEDING to believe everyone else is just like them so they can think they're normal.
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I have never opened a tab of ChatGPT. Never seen it. Never used it. Played around with an early image generator for an evening a few years ago, and haven't [intentionally] used AI since.
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I've never opened ChatGPT, period
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"How can you write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT?"

And now we know why most of the last season was just every single character together all at once
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You clarified something puzzling to me: itโ€™s not 19 alphabetic characters, itโ€™s 19 fictional people. ๐Ÿคช
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NO NEVER

#ITeamHuman
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I do my research by asking all my questions to a 4 year old who drinks thousands of gallons of water a day and loves to tell me to kill myself both accidentally and on purpose
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As is a literal fire-breathing monster
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Oh, that one kid from r/screenwriting?
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Nowadays I feel like people don't know to use search engines anymore.

I don't dare to imagine the amount of water wasted on something that would be among the first results and comes with a source attached.
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To be fair, SEO just ruined search engines
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thatโ€™s what Siri/ Google are for
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god these people are idiots
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No tabs but I have apps created from pages (it's chrome/edge functionality useful for any regularly used sites) so it's always available as a pinned icon on my taskbar. At work I have copilot and our internal LLM. At home I have chatgpt.
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Never used ChatGPT, never will. I'd rather eat raw onions topped with cilantro (I hate those xD).
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Guess that explains why the show went to shit
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Is that like having a tab of LSD โ€œfor research purposesโ€?
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Every time I ask a LLM chatbot to explain something I am an expert at, it makes mistakes. But it sounds authoritative.

When I ask it about things I am not an expert in, it sounds authoritative. And I can't always spot mistakes.

If I don't care about accuracy?
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ask it a question. get the answer. ask if it made it up. yes. you were right to call me out
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Blessed be those who are immune to Gell-Mann Amnesia!
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how does it 'sound' authoritative - thats you imposing some kind of emotion on it
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Anyone with a hobby can see how terrible it is. I search for certain named cultivars. The AI answers on Google are authoritatively stated trash.
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That interviewer fucked up bad with a followup if the director saw any "unethical" gen-AI use.

Oh good, but his own standards? Come on.
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*by his own standards.
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I have a fanfic Iโ€™m working on with over *50 OCs* and Iโ€™ve never once used ChatGPT to โ€œhelpโ€. Just a plain old word document, my own imagination, and wiktionary to double check some language stuff for names, bc as much as I love BehindTheName, itโ€™s best to double check user submitted names
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Never
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I wouldn't recognise it if I saw it. Never used, never will.
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Don't know the first gd thing about using chat gpt, and don't care
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have Google open? yes. look at ai bullshit. no. keep social media open so I can tag people I know are experts in shit i'm not? yes. talk to ai?...no. never.
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That's like having a toddler on hand for sound medical advice.
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Never had anything I need an hallucinating plagiarism machine for...
All mistakes in my books are my own.
ALL THE GOOD STUFF TOO!!!
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Google Ai is wrong 80% of the time, I don't get how that's still got people convinced LLMs know shit about dick
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The only time I used AI was for a required assignment for a comm masters course & I made sure the whole class knew I would never willingly use an LLM under any other circumstance.
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I talked to the prof running one of my masters classes to tell him i had an ethical objection to using LLMs and wasn't gonna do that assignment that way. He was pretty nice about it.
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We were required to use it as teachers at my school district and I straight up quit during the school year and left teaching altogether.

Itโ€™s my job to help students learn; not to give them brain damage.
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I did that in a job interview right before withdrawing from the search.
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โ€œChat GPT what movies came out in 1987 and what were they about?โ€
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I'm capable of doing my own research without delegating it to an LLM.
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โ€œHow do you possibly write a storylineโ€ฆโ€ says so much here.

Feel that shift in the atmosphere? Every writer is rolling their eyes.
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I've seen fan fiction authors juggle ensemble casts for 100k+ words. And they didn't have Netflix money being thrown at them.
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Why? He's saying it CANT be used for anything complex.

It can't accurately be used for anything simple either, but that's besides the point.
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Horrific.
::scowls in Dickens::
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I've genuinely never even been on chatgpt, let alone had a tab of it for quick research lol
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I've never willingly used any AI
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I use Google, with the "-ai" tag at the end of my queries.
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If I want research done at a 6th-grade level Iโ€™ll just ask my niece.
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I would never have a Tab with ChatGPT. One, I think the soda is defunct, so any remaining cans are flat by now. Second, me and ChatGPT are not friends like that.
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Never used it
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๐Ÿฅฐ
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Can't remember who said it first, but ChatGPT is basically a mansplaining bot - it is confidently wrong about every topic and will never admit it doesn't know something.
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I honestly had no idea you could just have a ChatGPT tab open until I read this
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i mean everyone uses AI unwillingly because of the stupid google ai overview. the 60 year old guy working at the dmv used that and iโ€™m like โ€œoh greatโ€
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I use Duckduckgo for searches these days
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No. When that came out I added an extension to Firefox that blocks it. I never see it.
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but why are you still using google? it is completely broken now. i stopped using it before the ai slop because of all the seo and ad results making it completely unusable
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There is a way to turn that off. Use google.com/?udm=14 to search. There are websites that give you a step by step on how to set your browser to do it automatically.
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You can bypass the ai. Itโ€™s a pain in the arse, but itโ€™s a real thing.
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Not only do I refuse to read it, I also click "give feedback" and tell Google to shove their AI directly up their ass every time it loads.
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Itโ€™s a great example of โ€œfruit of the poisonous treeโ€ even if it did work (it doesnโ€™t.)
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Oh yeah. Theyโ€™re called books. Good Portable Texts.
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"nobody has actually proved that it was open"

"We just use these tools โ€ฆ while multitasking."

Those are strange statements to make. Denying it while admitting that you use it literally seconds later.
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Never used it, donโ€™t see a reason to. I like using my own intellect and creativity.

I donโ€™t need a crutch. ChatGPT seems like taking a cheat sheet into a test.
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except the cheat sheet was written by an overimaginative fourth-grader who once had the test's subject described to them
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I have, unfortunately, had a tab of ChatGPT open to do quick research one time. Research on using ChatGPT. At the behest of my elderly doctoral advisor. The result of my research was that it gave me an output mostly like what I was asking for once, then failed to do so again in four more attempts.
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Same: University were like "this is a contemporary issue, so try this, then include your analysis". But honestly my analysis is the machine cannot guess faster than I can make for myself, to prompt the image in my head would take way longer than if I just got on with painting it on canvas by hand.
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I asked Google a question about Fallout 76 ONE TIME

It copy-pasted an RDR2 article but replaced every instance of RDR2 with "Fallout 76". Just SPECTACULARLY inaccurate

This is the closest I have ever gotten to willingly using AI. If I want wrong answers only I'll throw scrabble tiles on the floor
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They do better having a stranger things fan wiki open.
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ChatGBT has only been useful to me in figuring out some advanced Excel formulas, and even then it wasn't perfect. And I felt dirty each time I used it.
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Pretty much the only thing I've used AI for is to prove to people how it sucks.
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At least we know now how they got all the D&D references wrong
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ChatGPT is a fucking RP Partner trained on fanfiction, not a research tool.
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never have, never will ๐Ÿ™Œ
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If I have a tab of anything out for "quick research" it's Wikipedia goddammit! We are losing texts here!
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Why yes, I definitely do research by asking the chatbot that is INHERENTLY INCAPABLE of admitting it doesn't actually know or that it's wrong!

This is a fundamental problem with LLMs. You literally cannot train them to say "I don't know" because that's only a valid response to contexts they...
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...haven't been trained in.

If you ever see ChatGPT or another LLM say they don't know or that they were wrong, it's because of one of two reasons:
Either it's a topic it's been trained to always respond to in that way (making it completely useless at that topic) because the creators don't want...
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bsky.app/profile/colocharachel.bsky.social/post/3m7l2bx3qbk2r
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Same! ๐Ÿฅ‚
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A rare case of becoming smarter by NOT learning something
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I assume it's a website, but no idea. No intention of finding out.
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Straight up no idea! Plan on keeping it that way!
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Not a clue. I'm quite keen on conserving energy, for a start.
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Everything I have learned about the various AI agents has been against my will.
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Same
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Is it a website? An app? Do you pay for it? I DONโ€™T KNOW
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Yeah
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Case in point: I need to look into some science-y information for a book. My first thought was "how can I phrase my search?"

It certainly did not include "let's ask ChatGPT", because fuck that shit. I'll use a real search engine for real answers, thanks.
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interesting the way people in the thread define 'research'
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No Chat GPT. No Grok. No. Just no.
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Tbh, I tried to try one or other of these years ago when they were new and couldn't figure out how to install/run them without giving my phone number to evil. Gave up and never looked back. ๐Ÿคท
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same.
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I wonder what majors AI dissenters fall under.
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Never.
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Never ever
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Keeping it short, I'll never use AI for anything.
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Guy hasnโ€™t seen legend of the galactic heroes with all of its characters
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Search engines exist, you idiots
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I have never used chatgpt before.
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thats what fucking wikipedia is for, and google search (on the web tab that removes the ai overview)
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Never have, never will. I need accuracy, not made up stuff.
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Dont you have to pay for that slop? Really helps the inferred value. What would happen if it was all free?
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I have never opened ChatGPT and I never will. In fact, I'm not even sure if it's an app or a website.
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Nor for any other reason
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hoping for a Chotiner takedown of these genAI clowns
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I would never trust any 'research' to ChatGPT. The whole platform is biased to be agreeable to your responses, it is inherently a flawed system to ask for unbiased answers to your questions. Aside from all the other ethical problems, it's just a shit system prone to errors people take as the truth.
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Iโ€™ve never once used it and can confidently say I never will. In fact, it was through all of this that I learned that itโ€™s, like, maybe a website?
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Never have, never will. Been handwriting my stories since 6th grade, I ain't changing anything I do.
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Idk if I trust this reporter who openly admits to using ChatGPT.
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Why would I, I do it better than the bot *shrugs*
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I don't even know how to set it up.

AND I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW. I can make up my own bullshit.
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If I wanted to do actual research, the last thing I'd want is ChatGPT "helping". Nightmare.
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I'd rather let a stranger fart in my hand, sniff, and guess what they had for dinner.
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Never have, never will.
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There is no chance I will use it. Itโ€™s already causing problems for organisations that donโ€™t understand how it works.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn984j9d7o
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I have never used ChatGPT, but I could totally see asking it questions about the 1980s or science stuff on the fly while making a show like this.
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if I wanted to ask a question and get an answer that doesn't solve the question, I'd ask our cat.
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To be fair, the cat might have better answers if you ask the right way!
youtu.be/oLjpftigr9I?si=4b7hNnltOqBHlIIY for example
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chatGPT [french]
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At least the cat looks you in the eye sometimes
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I donโ€™t use it for research. And Iif anyone tells me โ€œChatGPT saysโ€ in a discussion, I dismiss whatever they say next out of hand.
I do not trust anything it spits out.
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Dude replaced his wife with ChatGPT
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I do proper research, I do not use the unreliable earth-destroying plagiarism machine. Never have.
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Never have used it. Donโ€™t plan to use it.
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I will not resort to LLM lying machines being peddled as a search engine parser, a work facilitator, as anything but the predictive text model that it is.

I will not resort to generative AI, based on stolen work, thriving on ecological depletion as it is.
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Iโ€™m not even sure where that thing is. Iโ€™m too busy blocking slop results out of my browser.
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Not RTing because I have, only because it's literally my job to administrate this nonsense for my company

Before y'all call me weak, please know that I've successfully trojan-horsed AI skepticism into most users' heads so our usage stats are absolutely terrible
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I have never used ChatGPT for research or indeed at all. I refuse point blank to use generative AI and when I do research, which I do a lot of for both my fiction and my none-fiction, I 'do' the research.
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my โ€œquick researchโ€ is when I go down the rabbit hole of hypertext on Wikipedia and open 20+ tabs of references in a row
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In an attempt to avoid AI using keyword filters I ended up with search results for software tools to control dildos. F*** bluetooth control API. Later used a setting in the browser to disable AI results.
Attitude swings between Meh and Nah. (do do be do do)
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Why would you use ChatGPT for research? That's like doing sums using dice.
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As a very important police person making very important police decisions, I find AI very helpful and nothing could ever go wrong.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/14/west-midlands-police-chief-apologises-ai-error-maccabi-tel-aviv-ban
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i used chatgpt once total ever and all i did was insult it and try to make it say swears (this was back when making it swear was difficult)
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Never. A million browser tabs, pushing my i7-13700K and 32gb of RAM to operational limits that gaming has trouble reaching? Absolutely. ChatGPT? No.
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Are we sure they were even doing the thing and also aren't we all always doing the thing
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I have literally never gone to ChatGPTโ€™s website and I am very proud of that fact.
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The only valid use for ChatGPT in writing is doing bullshit work like cover letters that nobody should have to write in the first place.
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Never used it and never intend to.
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I can't believe how often all these people tell us how big morons they are
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I love how whoever that person is they just said "no you can't prove we used AI anyway we do use AI"
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Doing research with a search engine that's wrong 30% of the time seems like bad research.
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More fundamentally, it's not a search engine.
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Closest Iโ€™ve come is helping library patrons who are using it copy the text into a Word document. Anything to do with it I just tell them that I donโ€™t know.

That said, while it often looks like Iโ€™ll have to learn for my job, I really hope I never will.
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If I need to do quick research, I open a search engine tab (usually DuckDuckGo) or a Wikipedia tab
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Agent Smith was right. 1999 was the high point of human civilisation.
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I absolutely have. For about three weeks. I found it pretty pointless. But maybe itโ€™s much, much, much better now.
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When it first launched I attempted to query my own name out of curiosity but thatโ€™s the last time I knowingly used it
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To be fair the interviewer then asked if he saw โ€œunethicalโ€ use of AI by the writers & he said no.
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I mean

ChatGPT is *inherently* unethical so I don't even know what we're doing here
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There is no ethical use of any LLM.
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I feel like in the quoted section, the interviewee disqualifies himself from commenting on whether uses of genAI are ethical or not. The assumption of its normativity, that "everyone" uses it, is a disqualifier.
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It took me long enough to figure out how to turn off "AI Overview" on Google so I could get rid of that shit.

The presence of AI chatbots genuinely makes research harder.
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Not done that. Won't ever do that. The automatic plagiarism engines will not pollute me.
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I love making life more difficult for myself by doing the research myself. Greatly rewarding!
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Once again theyโ€™re trying to take the fun out of things by outsourcing. Research is where you chase a random sentence and it opens up a whole new plot point or subject of a piece. Itโ€™s like all these bros do is see things that take time as tedious instead of central to creation.
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Me!
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never touched it never will
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Have never looked at it, doesnโ€™t even come to mind when Iโ€™m researching.
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Iโ€™d rather floss my butt with rusty, tetanus-infected barbed wire.

GenAI is the imagination killer.
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I can't believe bsky auto-muted such a fun graphic answer boo
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i've never even looked it up to even mess around with it when it first came out. all just seemed like a pointless waste of time
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Never have, never will.
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What the hell is ChatGPT?
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It's so crazy to me, because ChatGPT is a terrible research tool. It'll give you all sorts of false stuff, because if it doesn't find a quick answer it'll invent one. Nor does it have any sense of what constitutes truth or even reality in what it ingests.
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Itโ€™s not research, it lies!!!! What the hell. It told me to eat a deadly mushroom
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It didn't lie, it just doesn't like you.
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It probably also told them about Sorcerers in D&D but didn't tell them they weren't added until 2020
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The attempt at normalization. Ew
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If I wanted unhelpful and inaccurate research Iโ€™d just use google
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I wonder if that's why this last season was off.
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I've never used it for anything. The only time I saw it in use was at a real estate training session. They were demonstrating how to use it to write property descriptions. Seemed a waste of time to me. You had to give it all the information.
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"never had a tab of chatgpt open..." could just stop right there.
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Hard same
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I know a middle school science teacher that uses it and she also believes that the liver only has three lobes, so...
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Clarifying: the human liver.
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Wikipedia would solve that!
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Hell, I've never even opened a tab with ChatGPT, let alone attempt to do research with it.
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I mean my field is information studies, it'd kinda be contrary to everything I've ever learned to blindly trust an unsourced text generated based predictive algorithms.

If you want to do quick research, wikipedia is actually usually fine for the basics of most things. Specially compared to a LLM.
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Why would I have the lie machine open? So it can lie to me about what I wanted to know?
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Iโ€™ve literally never intentionally used ChatGPT. Because I donโ€™t need it for anything in my life. Some program I use could have it forced in, but nothing I intentionally sought out.
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"Research": the most likely string of text that will satisfy my prompt
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I've never used chat gpt ever
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The only time I've used ChatGPT it was through a work-hosted Enterprise edition. After a bit of playing around to get a sense of its behavior and limits, I only used it for the rare use cases where I had a very particular goal in mind that I was reasonably certain couldn't be done faster another way
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Nope, not even then.
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never
not once
and it's REALLY ANNOYING i get fed (often in accurate) AI responses anyway
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Never in a million years
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I have never had ChatGPT open, full stop.
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Sometimes you can't think of your own lie so you ask chatgpt
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I did. But my professor forced me to for a college assignment.
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Researching anything on ChatGPT sounds like a recipe for disaster...
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Never, in fact, had such a tab open in my life.
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Research should be fun and its an art form. Pathetic attitude to use AI for it.
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Duffers: Hey ChatGPT, what iconic 1980s song can we license cheaply for the final season of our hit show?

ChatGPT: Hey, that sound like a great idea! Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin was released in 1986 and would be perfect and cheap to license! Would you like me to draft an email?
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Ref: www.vulture.com/article/stranger-things-finale-led-zeppelin-song.html
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Why would I want wrong answers?
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I prefer Actual Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence.
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Fair enough, but we can still be friends.
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I have never opened Chatgpt. I legitimately donโ€™t even know what the front end looks like
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I don't even know where you *get* a tab of ChatGPT. Do you hang around on a street corner looking for a guy with an unusually bulky coat?
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Man, don't bother. I once tried a tab of ChatGPT, but instead of going on a trip, IT did all the hallucinating. Useless.
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and how do you pick between Jimmy Three Hands & Tom the Thumbs?
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The slop dealer has a coat with a lot of extra zippers and pockets and that don't make sense.
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I like to start of my research by asking the lying man what he thinks.
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There are some things itโ€™s useful for. I got it to create a table with links to lots of different university assessment policies and extract information like how long after the start of an exam you are let into the exam room. Or different policies for dealing with extensions.
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Honestly, I've never even opened ChatGPT not even to play with it to see what is about.
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Guys, it's a show. I am staunchly opposed to AI use in any creative field but let's be real here; this is about looking for objective or ontological reasons to justify something you liked disappointing you. I enjoyed it, it had its flaws, but good gosh it was just a show.
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When someone tells me they use ChatGPT for research, their credibility instantly goes to zero.
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I did technically once, but the research in question was what the chatgpt page looked like so I could properly parody it.
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What would be the point of using something for research that is known to lie and hallucinate?
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I stick to a Magic 8 Ball.
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I love how the interviewee seems unaware that creative writing was invented before LLMs.

Mr. Tolkien, you have more than 19 characters in your storyline. How did YOU use ChatGPT when crafting your epic?
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I'd prefer to have good information and use my own imagination, by avoiding slop
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Never used it, never will.
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That's what the Wikipedia tab is for.
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I must now consciously avoid the junk AI thatโ€™s embedded in Google, Microsoft, and Apple products, etc. This adds an extra step to my research process and hinders my work as a historian. Clippy burrowed underground for a couple decades and his locust-like brood has emerged to infest the world.
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I'd take Clippy over this shit.
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