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There's this meme of 'why is ChatGPT expert on everything but the area I have knowledge of'.
What you're describing is a professional looking up aditional info, with ability to sift through and judge the result, and I appreciate it in specialists of all the professions.
This is however largely not what this meme is about as in my experience cobbling together random snippets of code rarely if ever works.
That's just Gell-Mann amnesia applied to chat bots.
I didn't know about the meme but for a while, YouTube recommended me reviews of the book Sapiens which tries to encompass all of human history, starting from evolution and everyone was like "I learned alot but in the field of my experience, it's garbage" and I felt like c'mon, don't you see the pattern
I switched newspapers when I noticed that every time my newspaper write about something I actually knew about, they wrote garbage.
Sapiens does present some really powerful ideas, though. I enjoyed it a lot, but the book clearly glosses over a lot of details. Then again, it tries to tackle a ridiculously big scope, so I can see how it can't get into all of the details. I still consider it a worthy read despite its shortcomings. But read it more for the ideas than for the facts.
Isn't the "idea" a very eurocentric understanding of progress and how colonialism is actually good because it civilized the colonized? But I'm sure there is more to the book than that