> ChatGPT doesn’t do that. And so I think it should almost never be cited.
I usually try to get ChatGPT to give me a source for its answer. At least for me in most cases it gives non working URLs. It's very frustrating. Or it was very frustrating, I've since stopped using it where I need to quote sources.
ChatGPT is not a useful source since its inability to tell you where it got the information from is no different than asking a family member and citing "Bob, my uncle"
If you have ChatGPT Plus, you get access to the Web Browsing model, which allows ChatGPT access to the Internet. Not only do you get an audit log for all the sites ChatGPT visit, you also get citations as well for any sources it does end up using in the generated text. Even when ChatGPT does fail, its audit log gives me links to several sources that I can consult instead.
The difference is that you aren’t the one coming up with the search terms, browsing through all the search results, and then selecting the specific results you want to explore further. You let the Web Browsing model do all that work for you.
I usually try to get ChatGPT to give me a source for its answer. At least for me in most cases it gives non working URLs. It's very frustrating. Or it was very frustrating, I've since stopped using it where I need to quote sources.
ChatGPT is not a useful source since its inability to tell you where it got the information from is no different than asking a family member and citing "Bob, my uncle"