• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    I don’t agree. People use them as an input to their otherwise human controlled research or process.

    You do not make sense. If there is NOTHING that ChatGPT gives to you, of no validity whatsoever, then you would not use it. If there is at least some validity of the statements, only then it is useful.

    Again, you’re saying its binary; all or nothing. I’ve said many times now that’s not the measure. The measure is if is a trusted source for answers. It isn’t. It can be part of a path to get a trusted answer, but raw ChatGPT isn’t.

    Its false because you’re setting the conditions that these are the only two choices.

    You do not make sense here either. I am asking you to compare two things, it is irrelevant that there are more things. I can ask you to compare the weight of an apple and of an orange. It does not matter that there is also potato. You still can compare it. It is not false dichotomy.

    A false dichotomy is a logical fallacy.

    If you need the definition of that its this:

    “Logical fallacies are deceptive or false arguments that may seem stronger than they actually are due to psychological persuasion, but are proven wrong with reasoning and further examination. These mistakes in reasoning typically consist of an argument and a premise that does not support the conclusion.” source

    You’re trying to move the goalposts with the argument. We started this exploring the question of “Is ChatGPT a trusted source?” Now you’re trying to redefine the question of “Is ChatGPT better than nothing?”. I’m not engaging in that question, and you’ve stopped engaging in the original question.

    I don’t see any productive conversation going forward. I thank you for your time and attention during this discussion. I don’t believe either one of us was persuaded to the other’s position, but I appreciate your involvement. Have a great day!

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      6 months ago

      We started this exploring the question of “Is ChatGPT a trusted source?”

      I think I see where our misunderstanding is. I have never stated that it is a “trusted source”. Only as a source that has positive (and in my opinion reasonably high) credence , that is that it increases validity of the statement. But it does not make it true! This is precisely why I

      1. Stated that I am not specialist (so that you know MY credence is low)

      2. Provided source of the statement (so that you know that the credence of those statements is better than mine, but not to the level of actual scientific papers, or even Wikipedia)

      That means that you (the reader of my post) should NOT take my statement as true, only as possibly or likely to be true, and you should not assume that I think I am absolutely right. However, I do believe that there is quite noticeable credence of ChatGPT output and I was posting this in discussion board for the purpose of discussion of those statements with total expectation if the statements are wrong, than people will point that out. So far, despite of multiple attacks on my post, nobody have mention any factual error in the ChatGPT output.