It's absolutely fucking terrifying how much trust/reliance the yoot are putting in ChatGPT.
At first I thought the whole 'I asked ChatGPT and...' was a joke, but it turns out that they're genuinely fact checking everything via LLM's instead of researching and verifying things independently. A huge number of these kids have completely lost the inability/incentive to think for themselves because ChatGPT is giving them that instant hit in much the same way as their short-form infinite-scrolling social media platforms do.
I suppose you could argue that it's no worse than our generation relying on Wikipedia as a reliable source of information, but something about this seems far more portentous.
(, Fri 10 Oct 2025, 6:00, Reply)