Sheldon Rampton

@paulg The writing process is only partly about finding the right words with which to express ideas. A significant part of the process entails examining the ideas themselves and discovering hidden assumptions in them that don't bear up to scrutiny. Even when writing about my own experiences, I have sometimes discovered during fact-checking that my memories about those experiences are inaccurate.

@pronoiac@mefi.social @DrewKadel@social.coop People should not think that ChatGPT is a reliable research tool, but it can actually be pretty helpful as a down-and-dirty _approximation_ tool. It gets some details wrong, but most of the facts is presents have been correct in my experience. If you make the effort to fact-check it a little, you can get good results from it with less effort than other methods.