My son's grade school has a "tech literacy" class that taught the kids to look things up on google and chatgpt.
Something tells me it isn't run/taught by a librarian.
Four years ago my then-third-grader was given a reading comprehension assignment that purported to be about processed foods, and had as one of its facts that Wendy's chili contained sand. I made a great "is this source reliable?" assignment out of it for him, but that was pre-chatgpt, when
Good, kids should now how to use tools properly, not shun them simply because their parents or teachers think they're evil.
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We're going to have to start teaching them to use Wikipedia as a starting point and SO many peoples' heads are going to explode over it.
Arrrggghh! Are they not teaching kids to look for reliable sources? With a google search they could look and see where that info is coming from and evaluate its credibility. With ChatGPT it just spits out “answers”.
Okay, Google I can understand - it's a search engine, all it does is point to different answers. But ChatGPT? Best case, it's taking data - good and bad - dumping it all in one bucket and mixing it together. Worst case, it's literally making up answers that sound good.