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I never ask these bots because they are all the time wrong enough to not be useful for me.
I don't need construction advice which gets one of the mentioned materials completely wrong. I don't need technical advice that invents syntax and libraries. I don't need mathematical advice that produces formulae with errors. It's even worse that you have to look very attentively before you'll notice that error.
It doesn't feel like something new, though, more like return to badly machine-translated texts or those with breaking typos found in search engines in year 2003. And even generated, by Markov chains or by mentally ill humans or whatever. Remember when "googling" meant checking 20+ pages of results and that was normal.
I don't know why a tool for quick wrong answers is so popular. I can make up quick wrong answers too. I use the Internet for trying to find correct answers.
It’s more correct than Google search top results consistently.
Even better when it gets to know you.
And you always ask it for its sources.
They are right. I’m not saying this is a good thing. We have to save the internet by making an alternate.
Because its often correct.