• youngalfred@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I generally get ask it to provide sources for its work, and then show the students that most of the time those sources don’t actually exist.

    Like it’ll have a real author, and a real journal, but a fake article name that the author supposedly wrote.

    Or a real website that 404’s - once is fair enough, websites change, but when ten of the sourced websites are all 404s that’s not right. You also try to search for the article that’s meant to be on the website, but even the website doesn’t think it exists.

    I’ve even been in an argument with Bing where it was adamant that an article existed on a university website, and it shut down the conversation with me when I kept pointing out I couldn’t find it.