On: ChatGPT Search

[greenchair]

the only people who think wikipedia is a legitmate source and can be used as reference material are lazy students. chatgippity is even worse on this point..an absolute black box. providing references like search does is a step in the right direction. We will have to see what those references turn out to be.

[ripe → greenchair]

The best feature of Wikipedia is that it contains references. The second best feature is that it has no ads and loads quickly.

If all these "AI" companies gave a couple of million to support Wikipedia, they would do the world a lot more good.

[PittleyDunkin → greenchair]

> the only people who think wikipedia is a legitmate source and can be used as reference material are lazy students.

100%. Students who can do the work know the winning move is to use it as a way to find the sources you actually use.