@Purple well, yesterday I got a similarly weird interaction with a lawyer I respect and trust (or rather trusted). Had some technical questions just out of the land of curiosity, regarding some recent changes in the system of local courts. She insisted on "asking" ChatGPT, despite the fact that I showed multiple times that it's just wrong and misleading.

And my main motivation was to understand and update Wikidata and Wikipedia (because it was also wrong and has been that way for a decade or so).

So, to conclude, by lobotomizing people it also takes away some chances for decent conversation, debate, line of thoughs and arguments.

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*sigh*