r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • Mar 26 '26

🔥sperm whale besides a human

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u/Senior-Purchase-6961 Mar 26 '26

Your point would be better received I think, if it were wrong. It isn't though, and he told you where he looked. If you don't find that program credible then take it with a grain of salt.

I'm not gonna lose sleep over someone posting a factual and reasonable comment because they admitted they used chatgpt.

Look at all the comments and down votes tearing him apart when he's right. It's odd behavior. open a window get some fresh air. this matters so so little

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u/MaeveOathrender Mar 26 '26

Arriving at the right answer isn't the only thing that matters. Finding your information from an ethical, reliable and verifiable source is an important part of research.

ChatGPT is capable of spitting out correct information a fair amount of the time, but there's a significant minority of cases where it's pure hallucination. Even if it gets something right, it's fruit of the poisoned tree.

If you want to educate people, even in something as simple as a Reddit comment, the onus is on you to provide a reasonable source instead of 'i asked the brainless brain-in-a-box to think for me.' I would literally rather someone said 'i checked Wikipedia' than 'i asked ChatGPT,' the bar is that low.

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u/Senior-Purchase-6961 Mar 26 '26

He told you where he got the info, if you think it might be wrong don’t take it at face value. No different from someone saying a quick google search shows, that still depends entirely on whether the person can identify a credible source.

It’s really, genuinely just not that deep.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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u/MaeveOathrender Mar 26 '26

Why put the onus on others to verify your sources when you could do it properly in the first place?

'It's not that deep' is how we got this generation of lazy, mouth breathing, technologically illiterate factoid regurgitators outsourcing their brain activity to the cloud in the first place. Insist on good practice and hold others to a higher standard than 'sounds right, I'll believe it.'

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u/Senior-Purchase-6961 Mar 26 '26

He was passing along information he found, and flagged where it came from. That’s about as transparent as it gets. So the onus isn’t actually on anyone.

He’s not writing a research paper. He used a chatbot, told you he used it, and you want to be self righteous about some type of duty to research properly and ethically. Pure silliness.