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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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People always misuse searchengines by writing the whole questions as a search...

With ai they still can do that and get, i think in their optinion, a better result

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (8 children)

They get an answer but unlike a search engine, the AI doesn’t show its work. I want a citation with the answer, I’m not taking your word for it!

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Eh? You can ask it to provide sources and it will. Or at least Google AI in the search box does it by default

There's lots of things wrong with AI, but that's actually not one of them much of the time.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago

Oh you definitely have to double check. But what's the point of sources if you don't check them anyway?

And links in particular are super easy to check. Books and articles obviously less so

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