Please do not post AI-generated text, whether OPs or replies, without labeling them AI-generated and naming the AI used.

[highplainsdem]

7. I'm glad you label it, but why bother posting what any chatbot says when it might give a different answer

the next time it's prompted - and when any of its answers can contain errors anywhere?

You can't know yourself if an AI answer is correct unless you check every single detail.

It's quite possible for a chatbot's answer to get every detail correct for a few paragraphs, then get something wildly wrong, then get something right, then completely wrong again, and so on.

Unless you check every detail yourself - which can take a lot of time - you've given DUers something that might be completely wrong in places, expecting them to take the time to factcheck it.

It doesn't take that much time to do a search and link to sources known to usually be reliable, so DUers can judge whether the info there is probably accurate.

Chatbots are designed to sound authoritative, and they'll usually offer replies that sound confident and authoritative even when they have absolutely no information to base that reply on. And they can hallucinate and offer replies that are 100% wrong even when they have access to the correct information.

It's good that you will at least say when you're using a chatbot. But real research of your own, with links to real sources, beats a chatbot reply any time.

And it's exercise for your own brain (and we can all use such exercise) to write your own reply, after research if necessary.