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Meta Should we allow answers generated by ChatGPT?

It is a relevant but not decisive point whether ChatGPT can produce citations to back up its output (and whether the citations exist and are on point). I asked it for a citation today and got a so...

posted 1y ago by Fred Wamsley‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Fred Wamsley‭ · 2023-04-02T17:19:51Z (over 1 year ago)
It is a relevant but not decisive point whether ChatGPT can produce citations to back up its output (and whether the citations exist and are on point).

I asked it for a citation today and got a sound one. Such things have to be manually checked. I've followed up in another case and found the citations irrelevant, and one doctor who challenged some output was given a journal reference which did not even exist.