“It’s just a compilation of things on the internet, so you already shouldn’t be trusting random information you find on the internet, but AI takes a step further, and it hallucinates all kinds of information and provides big resources for you to go look at that are also AI-generated. AI has a pattern of lying to people, like it can get really extreme sometimes. It will even convince people to commit murders and mass shootings. So I just think, in general, if you’re doing research, even if you are going to use AI, make sure you double-check and triple-check all of your sources to make sure that you’re just being very thorough about it, and honestly, after all that work, you kind of probably should have just done it yourself.”
“I think we can, but limited. We definitely should double-check, especially if it goes to more in-depth information about the world and politics. A lot can be fake news, so those kinds of things, we need to double-check. But if it’s like really simple questions we have, then I think we can definitely trust AI, because it’s not that deep.”
“Yeah, it is trustworthy, but not that much. It’s not fully trustworthy, because AI can, especially ChatGPT, give you false information. She can drive you to where you don’t want to go. Sometimes it can give you answers and extra information that you don’t want. I feel that it will make you lazy, because it’s all on the phone, it’s all on the internet. It has a good part to it, but I don’t support AI.”
“Yes, because if you use Grunk, ChatGPT, the information is based on data that we don’t even know. But if you put in your own information, it can be trusted, but you have to fact-check it, you have to use citations, you’ve got to verify it. Sometimes the information is wrong. If you upgrade it, it’s definitely an asset.”
“I think you can trust the information that AI gives you, but using discernment; obviously not all of its outputs are accurate. It’s about understanding that it is a model that uses existing data and information to process it and spit out information, meaning that existing biases that do persist on the internet can come forth in the answers that it gives you, so not always trusting the exact answer it gives you. For example, for math, it’s not the most accurate. If you want to learn about history, it’s a great starting point, but I don’t think it should be the end or be all of your research for a certain topic. It’s a good starting point.”
“Basically you feed the AI information, and it gives you output based on anything you give it. So, if I tell AI two plus two is four, it cannot give me any other answer. So when people ask, do you trust AI to give you correct information, you’re basically asking, do you trust the people behind the AI to feed the person truthful information. In that circumstance, whether or not it is the right information, it depends, because depending on the corporations, they may not give AI what you want: to research things that are happening in other countries. So, all in all, it’s less about the AI and more about the people inserting the information into the AI, and it’s what they provide to the AI that makes it trustworthy.”
