What Not to Ask ChatGPT For Help With [Video]

OpenAI’s ChatGPT excels at tasks like coding, document summarization, brainstorming, and more, but there are areas where the AI chatbot should probably be second-guessed.

ChatGPT has emerged as a popular and widely used tool in the past year, with 200 million weekly active users worldwide as of September 2024, and 77.2 million monthly active users alone within the U.S. The majority of users (62 percent) are college-age or young professionals aged between 18 and 34, according to Statista. But what are people using this AI tool for—and what should they not be using it for?

What not to ask ChatGPT—and why

Important research—you can’t be sure sources are ‘hallucinated’ or not

From college students working on a midterm paper to legal professionals carrying out discovery, many people have been caught out when the sources generated by ChatGPT were, in fact, completely made up.

In 2023 a New York-based lawyer was sanctioned for submitting a legal brief that cited six fictitious …