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With the creation and use of ChatGPT and Bard, I bet ELI5 community and subreddit have had less posts, because people can just ask them instead.

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Captain Poofter@lemmy.world
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During the early newspaper era, they would write the editor with basic questions like they were google.

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schmidtster@lemmy.world
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Isn’t it still a thing.

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TehBamski@lemmy.worldOP
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It is. I’ve seen ‘Write the Editor’ sections often in the magazines I check out from the library from time to time. IIRC: Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, and The New Yorker have one.

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Captain Poofter@lemmy.world
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Newspapers? Depends who you ask

Jokes aside, I am not talking about the “write the editor” sections we see now. I am saying they’d use it like GOOGLE. You’re not going to see someone ask “what’s 32,344 divided by 7?” Or “who is the senator of idaho” In the new yorker.

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sturlabragason@lemmy.world
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Yeah I read a 30 year old newspaper a while back and it was like super high latency internet. Message board, posts, replies to posts, personals etc. None of that stuff makes it into newspapers anymore…

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treadful@lemmy.zip
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I don’t get why people trust their answers so much. They lie. Confidently. Constantly.

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Otter@lemmy.ca
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I usually ask the GPT, then look up the topic myself based on terms and keywords that were mentioned

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Deceptichum@kbin.social
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No! You’re meant to blindly trust every source of information you read, AI or not.

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Fubber Nuckin'@lemmy.world
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I don’t get why people completely disregard their usefulness because of that. Just don’t trust anything they say until you verify it. It’s still useful for exploration or to get enough of a grasp of something that you can figure it out on your own.

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Terevos@lemm.ee
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ELI5 how to use ChatGPT and Bard

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neptune@dmv.social
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Quota is in shambles

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JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
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All they need is a couple bots that rely on GPT for outputs and it’d be like nothing changed.

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peto (he/him)@lemm.ee
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So, no change then?

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Otter@lemmy.ca
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What are some other communities that are less used now? WritingPrompts and PhotoshopBattles come to mind for me

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TehBamski@lemmy.worldOP
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Oh man. I forgot that PhotoshopBattles existed.

That’s a good question. I would guess that it’s lessened some. But both are for creative tasks vs explaining a proven topic, item, or thing.

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