Comment by novok
6 days ago
IMO you shouldn't put a large amount of quoted text, that is just annoying. You should link out at that point. I think if we ban people from citing sources, they will just stop citing sources and that is even worse. It's the new "I googled that for you" and that is fine IMO.
"I googled that for you" is generally deployed when you know better than the other person (and likely wish to rub it in their face that they should know better too).
I feel like the LLM equivalent here sort of demonstrates the exact opposite (I don't know enough about this topic to even doubt the accuracy of the machine...)
I often get to a point where it's faster to tell a person to just look at the output of the ai agent than to write it out myself.
"I googled that for you" can also be done from a position of ignorance too.
This is just a new thing that new cultural norms are developing from.