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I just find the deference to chatbots a bit sad in that it will cause people to be less curious. Guess this is how people felt about moving from an abacus or slide rulers to calculators, but it gets used for such menial bullshit that can easily be looked up instead of asking the virtual eqvivalent of Dave at the pub.
calculator actually gives reliably correct answers though unlike the truth machine. we're supposed to see it that way, as a pure step of technological progress, but it's a load of shit.
It was already trending that way with “google it” being such a common response to questions
that's not the same at all. why are you asking me something factual i half-remember from five years ago? just look it up because i'd also have to look it up to answer.
I realize I misread the paragraph and thought it was bemoaning the lack of human-to-human interaction with asking about stuff.
It sorta' is similar in terms of epistemology too because when some people say "google it" they have blind trust in big corporation google/the internet contains all human knowledge the same way people are putting faith into chatgpt. It's often times the same as if someone here asked if China's governing party was marxist or not and being told to just "google it." It shows an inability to grapple with ideas and a dependence on massive self-interested corporations for information.
I think it's definitely a precursor to this chatgpt-as-mental-crutch trend we're seeing.