[evilfred]

how is it "trusted" when it just makes things up

[andrewflnr]

That's a great question to ask the people who seem to trust them implicitly.

[handfuloflight]

They aren't trusted in a vacuum. They're trusted when grounded in sources and their claims can be traced to sources. And more specifically, they're trusted to accurately represent the sources.

[dingnuts]

15% of people aren't smart enough to read and follow directions explaining how to fold a trifold brochure, place it in an envelope, seal it, and address it

you think those people don't believe the magic computer when it talks?

[tsukikage]

“trusted” in computer science does not mean what it means in ordinary speech. It is what you call things you have no choice but to trust, regardless of whether that trust is deserved or not.

[pegasus]

For one, it's not like we're at some CS conference, so we're engaging in ordinary speech here, as far as I can tell. For two, "trusted" doesn't have just one meaning, even in the narrower context of CS.

[lxgr]

I meant it in the ordinary speech sense (which I don't even thing contradicts the "CS sense" fwiw).

Many people have a lot of trust in anything ChatGPT tells them.