#chatgpt for research

[tricksfunn]

The AI Assistant: Streamlining Your Workflow with ChatGPT's Research and Editing Tools

Unleash the Power of ChatGPT’s Research Tools In today’s digital firehose, creators and researchers are constantly bombarded with information overload. The pressure to churn out fresh, SEO-friendly content while staying ahead of the curve can feel suffocating. But what if there was a secret weapon to turbocharge your workflow and unlock a wellspring of creative ideas? Enter ChatGPT, the AI…

[lifewithchronicpain]

ChatGPT can harm an individual’s critical thinking over time, a new study suggests.

Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab asked subjects to write several SAT essays and separated subjects into three groups — using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, using Google’s search engine and using nothing, which they called the “brain‑only” group. Each subject’s brain was monitored through electroencephalography (EEG), which measured the writer’s brain activity through multiple regions in the brain.

They discovered that subjects who used ChatGPT over a few months had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels,” according to the study.

The study found that the ChatGPT group initially used the large language model, or LLM, to ask structural questions for their essay, but near the end of the study, they were more likely to copy and paste their essay.

Those who used Google’s search engine were found to have moderate brain engagement, but the “brain-only” group showed the “strongest, wide-ranging networks.” (Read more at link)

This research is so important. I know it won’t surprise any of us anti—ai folks, but proving what we already know is paramount.

[m1ckeyb3rry]

what really fries me about people who use chatgpt on their homework in my classes is they get the wrong answer and then they text me and i tell them how to do it and they’re like “😱😱 how did you know how to do that ??” well maybe if you opened the slides instead of rushing to jerk off ai you would’ve realized that the professors tell you how to do what they want you to do 😭😭 you dumb fucks FKDKDNJSND LIKE ??

[miriammctroi]

This is what AI should be used for in writing:

of course, all info provided by chatgbt should be verified afterwards, but it's easier to have an answer and look up if it's right / wrong than to not have an answer and try to understand anatomy from scratch

[alleywayslushie]

I think people just don't know enough about LLMs. Yeah, it can make you stupid. It can easily make you stupid if you rely on it for anything. At the same time, though, it's an absolutely essential tutoring resource for people that don't have access to highly-specialized personnel.

AI is a dangerous tool. If you get sucked into it and offload all your thinking to it, yeah, you're gonna be screwed. But just because it's dangerous doesn't mean that no one knows how to wield it effectively. We REALLY have to have more education about AI and the potential benefits it has to learning. By being open to conversations like this, we can empower the next generation that grows up with AI in schools to use it wisely and effectively.

Instead? We've been shaming it for existing. It's not going to stop. The only way to survive through the AI age intact is to adapt, and that means knowing how to use AI as a tool -- not as a therapist, or an essay-writer, or just a way to get away with plagiarism. AI is an incredibly powerful resource, and we are being silly to ignore it as it slowly becomes more and more pervasive in society

[moonspirit]

Aruani are so cute because i just know armin has a little itinerary on his phone that has every single detail of their dates planned out and how much annie enjoyed it. And annie is just happy to go with him and eat and enjoy her bfs company

T____T Anon, honestly, Annie's SOOOOOOOO relaxed dating Armin because he's like an autofill system: just give him the word 'date' and he'll come up with an itinerary for 12 days that has dinosaur tours, cake baking workshops, deep sea diving and riverside picnics, complete with backup plans and emergency contingencies.

At the end of it he has a feedback survey with a rating of 0-10 and Annie gives him anything lower than 8 he'll breakdown and become unusable for the next 3 months 🥺

And of COURSE Annie enjoys this! She's basically dating THE BOY and has to do absolutely nothing!

The dream life!!!

[squarebracket-trickster]

Oh my god for the last time

DO NOT USE AI FOR RESEARCH. DON'T TRUST ANYTHING IT TELLS YOU.

Do not use AI for research even if it cites its sources. Have you verified the credibility of those sources?

Do not use AI for research even if its sources are credible. Have you checked to make sure they have the most up-to-date information?

Do not use AI for research even if the sources are recent. Is this information generally accepted by experts in the field, or is it a controversial stance? Did AI source the 9/10 dentists or the 1/10? You don't know. You have no way of knowing unless you do your own fucking research!

DO NOT USE AI FOR RESEARCH. for the love of god people

"But I'm just doing research for my novel. It's okay if it's not 100% accurate."

ChatGPT told a person to glue the cheese on their pizza to make it stick. It told someone else a poisonous mushroom was safe to eat. It told another kid that Greek was a combination of four different languages. It thought there were 2 r's in strawberry.

Your information will probably not be 100% accurate. It might not be 50% accurate. It might be so completely and utterly false it would make a flat eather look informed. Just use Wikipedia of you want something quick and dirty. It might not be 100% accurate either, but it won't tell you to eat glue.

[hergrandplan]

i should get a wholeass euro anytime someone tells me that they asked chatgpt or whatever other AI. and they should pay me that euro personally

[bitstitchbitch]

im begging y’all… I’d rather you didn’t use AI for anything for a variety of reasons, but even if you insist on using it to “write” your essays or generate “art”, both of which are at least time-demanding tasks that do have a significant time reduction benefit when using AI, at the very least can you please not use ChatGPT as a search engine? It really doesn’t take that much longer to use a search engine and go to Wikipedia and then you will have a more reliable answer (though normal misinformation still exists of course) with a source to refer to and context for the information instead of an AI hallucination that could be wildly false with a fake source that doesn’t actually exist and which took significantly more electricity to generate than the normal Google search.

im just seeing so many people on social media go “so I asked ChatGPT…” and then give demonstrably false information as if it were fact. And that contributes significantly to misinformation online.

[river-of-wine]

Watching a YouTuber correctly talk about how awful nfts are only for them to pull up a ChatGPT explanation of what an nft is. Get fuckedddddd

[haysaprocky]

it’s too hot for a full out walk rn but i have ants in my pants so im doing laps around my backyard like a prisoner lmfao

[quaranmine]

On Wednesday before I gave my presentation I confessed to a new employee that I was worried it would be too long and she brightly told me her life hack was to just let AI rewrite things for her. She said I should put in all my talking points and ask ChatGPT to give me a five minute exactly presentation. I was like....how is the most polite possible way (since this is a new colleague I shouldn't get off on the wrong foot with) that I can express that I will Not be taking this advice. Ever. I told her that I didn't think we were allowed to use ChatGPT at this job (we most certainly are not, it is a nightmare for any type of protected information) and also that I prefer to write all of my own work. Despite my best efforts the last part of that was still passive aggressive, lol.

Something about being a writer makes it so that it's almost offensive to me for someone to suggest I use AI to do my work instead? Like, the day I reach the point where I let AI write something for me is the day y'all need to be checking me for brain damage because clearly I'm losing it

[unopenablebox]

i'm going to be honest i do sometimes nowadays find myself explaining to 22-year-olds why i think it's probably not ideal to use an AI summary podcast of a paper as a substitute for reading the paper

this is majestically cringe but i do try to limit myself to only doing it to people who have already applied to grad school and are deliberately trying to have the "critically reading the actual contents of the literature" job. i also think it's bad if an 18-year-old does it and never learns whether they could be good at reading papers but i don't think i have a good argument for them on why i have a meaningful perspective on its benefits that they should consider placing over their own prioritization of their time

[zydraholic]

So sick of the way gen ai is trying to force its way into every aspect of my life. Why can’t I opt out of any of this bullshit. Leave me alone!!!

[chroniclesofachemist]

STUDENTS! RESEARCHERS!

I got a lil tricky trick for you;

You can use chatgpt to write highly specific database/library search strings. I realise not everyone is good at this skill so having a tool do it for you can be really beneficial for big literature reviews et cetera.

Try it sometime!

[roeswater]

lmfao