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[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Firstly: I'm not the downvoter.

Secondly: you didn't have to - you chose to.

And as most chatbots list sources, you can always check them out yourself and cut out the middle man. Most of academia - some 45% do that. Another 45% don't even bother. A lone 10% still do things the old fashioned way. In any case, you're not alone in relying on AI to find obscure information.

With search engines becoming increasingly infested with low-quality and obvious-slop sites, relying on the same methods as the slopmasters isn't even a big stain on your morality. Because of it was, the slopmasters would be drowning in the ink required, and billionaires would already have caused another biblical flood of it.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Did you know that 87% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

60% of the time it works every time

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

49% of us think we're not divided.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago

Half the population can't read statistics and the other third choose not to.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Academia calls these heuristics, not statistics.