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[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But generally you can't (shouldn't) trust web search results fully either. At the end of the day, the onus is on you as the user to do your due diligence.

I've seen ChatGPT give me wrong information, and sometimes it would be bad to execute the code or command it generated it, but I know enough to say "are you sure thats correct?". Hell, you can just challenge it each time or open a new session and ask it "what does this code do: insert-code-it generated here".

You shouldn't just paste a search result command from stack overflow into your terminal either. And at least with chatgpt you can ask it to explain the command or code in detail and it will walk you through what each step does.

Also, pasting that command from stack over flow into chatgpt and adding your specific context around it is HUGE. Thats why I say they are different products/use cases but they work well in concert. They just dont work well combined together like bing and google have been doing.

edit: I guess lemmy escapes certain characters and it ate my post.