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A very annoying trend I've already started noticing on some forums (including here unfortunately) is someone asking a question and one of the replies is someone saying "I put your question into ChatGPT and it said..."

I downvote and flag every chatgpt generated comment, even if they’re up front about it

If I want to know what chatgpt thinks about something, I can ask it myself

Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35031737

Apparently everyone doesn't!

The problem is that people also sometimes get stuff wrong and hallucinate. So ChatGPT is just mimicking how we behave and it seems completely normal.

While it's true humans are fallible, it is more clear what someome should and should not get wrong, and we can make safer assumptions about the knowledge we get from certain individuals. ChatGPT doesn't "know" anything, you can get it to be right and wrong about the same detail in the same conversation. It's not clear what it should be correct about, and so it's a pretty poor source of information.

And then there are trolls.