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When talking to other people and bringing up sources, it's common for them to say "I don't like that website" or "it's not trustworthy". On Lemmy, this is most commonly said about Reddit, where you will be questioned if you use it as a source of knowledge or show off something you did there. Wikipedia is another one.

However, the other day, me and a friend noticed something. The most discredited websites all correspond to the most neutral websites. Minus its overt traditionalism, Reddit is pretty neutral and doesn't promote a specific leaning. Wikipedia is another one, as the whole point of Wikipedia was that it could be a source of knowledge made by the people and for the people. Recently ChatGPT became something a lot of people consult, and nowadays you get a lot of ridicule for mentioning things like asking it for advice or going to it to check on something. Quora is a fourth example, in fact it currently has a "spammy" reputation that I don't see the inspiration for. I don't know, this all seems too big a coincidence in our world.

Do these websites (and other ones) really inspire being looked down upon as much as the people around you claim, and which ones do you have the most and least amount of issue with? And why?

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[–] JASN_DE@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

ChatGPT and all the other AI models are notoriously unreliable when it comes to facts. They tend to report back false information, or will simply make stuff up.

[–] ShiverMeTimbers@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone should tell Simon Whistler that then, he's been using it in every two Brain Blaze episodes.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 3 points 22 hours ago

Simon Whistler is a presenter and it often shows. He's pretty entertaining, and he has the look of a scholar which gives him some gravitas and credibility when he talks, but he isn't particularly knowledgeable of anything (including topics he's already covered in one channel when presenting the same topic on another).

So of course he thinks ChatGPT is smart.