just out of curiousity
how many of yous use AI ( like ChatGPT ) for answers ?
how accurate you think it is in answers ?
you think it'll replace search engines ?
myself used it a few times and it seems pretty accurate and to the point , don't have to search through 1000s of links looking for an answer ...
in my humble opinion search engines ,like google , is in danger
PS : look carefully at AI answers and don't follow blindy , especially codes , make sure you understand what a code will do
also , been frowned upon here (and elsewhere lol ) for answering users questions with a AI "solution".
the way i see it though , its exact and to the point and usually just works , ive solved loads of my probs with AI , so yea .
i know a "machine" doesn't beat experience , but it does have TONS of relative info flowing through it's tin brain in milliseconds lol
It exist on any websides also bank office, post office any shopping webside. Everywhere.
I am sometimes using. With some subject is usable but with another is very dumb and dumber. It is usable like a children learning fast but have problem with understable what you mean. It takes just some words from your question or something. Sometimes I using them like faster engine search from google if I want some information. It could be good or bad information or even doesn't exist.
Neither do I, using a search engine. Usually,. it only takes a few hits to narrow things down. If it took thousands, no one would ever have used that.
ChatGPT and other A.I. seem accurate, when you don't know the answer.
For simple tasks that are commonly and heavily documented, it does quite well.
But add a bit of complexity, especially with scripting, and A.I. will produce very confident sounding answers that are very wrong.
I have tested ChatGPT on this quite a lot and will confront it when it gets it wrong. It always apologizes for the inconvenience and tries again. Often, it will provide a wrong answer three or so times before stumbling on something that is more accurate. Sometimes, it never gets there at all.
A human can say, "I do not know." Th A.I. won't. It undeservedly begs for your trust.
Absolutely.
If a member will just punch in a query to A.I., the original poster could have tried that. And if the original poster or the member are not sure if the A.I. answer is accurate, it is best not to perform that step in that way.
No. Search engines are the foundational base for A.I. to use.
It needs them in order to survive.
exactly , user don't know the answer ...but what if answer is correct and not "seems to be ?"
agree...see your point , well taken
If I submit help including links from my own websearches, I state that at the beginning.
I think if you are submitting an answer generated by AI, then I think it would be good etiquette to state "this solution was created using AI" at the top, not at the end of the post.
i was just thinking that , someone responds to a post with a link to a supposed answer , and everyone can see it's a link , and that's fine .
but if someone pastes a AI answer , what does it matter if the acknowledgement is at top or bottom of post ?
the way i see it not EVERYBODY knows of how to use AI and what not , at end of day we're here to help each other, by any means possible ?
If at the top, they will be able to see it before proceeding to follow the advice, otherwise only see it is AI generated after they get to the end. That is the difference.
Any user can search A.I. prior to asking on the forum. In fact, many have, then joined and posted their woes that now includes A.I. having misled them or broken their installation.
The problem with A.I. is that it provides an answer as solid, with such confidence that the user thinks it must be valid. An intelligent person knows to provide caveats and warnings or to admit a lack of knowledge. This makes A.I. risky.
This is a community forum that provides help from knowledgeable members of the community.
If the ZorinGroup wishes, they can include an A.I. function on the Zorin Home Page.
Because the reader should be informed about how reliable the post is. If someone just copy and pasted what the A.I. generated, they should know immediately if they want to avoid that.
you make very good arguments grant you that lol
anyway , i intented this as a poll thingy , not a debate / arguments .
ok i usually read through an entire reply before taking action , but that's just me lol.
I once used ChatGPT to find out how to use Regular Expressions in LibreOffice Find and Replace. I wasted a lot of time. It repeatedly gave me incorrect information (5 or 6 times) and I would have saved time (and learned more!) if I had read the LibreOffice Help thoroughly. Which is what I ended up doing. What really irritated me (perhaps I am wiser now) is the way it seems compelled to appear to know the answer, an answer, or to say something at any cost. It reminds me of the bad pupil who is constantly trying to bluff his way through being quizzed by a teacher. But I have to concede: that too is a kind of intelligence. It's just not useful to me as a user.
I use it little. But I believe it has the potential to be the new standard search tool in the future.
I read somewhere that younger generations are migrating from google to tik tok to do research. So I don't see why traditional search engines will not cease to exist in the future.
PS: Not that I agree with all of this.
You can do a "Poll" thread here on the forum (others have), but I can't point you at forum instructions how you would create that.
i have searched for a poll thing to no avail
i have seen others do a poll
so this was my best shot 
I added a poll to the O.P. for you.
A member can choose two options:
To create a poll, click the settings gear icon on the post creation toolbar to open a drop down menu, then select "build poll".
(I answered that I use A.I. to be honest- I use it for testing A.I. as I said earlier. I do not use it for answering queries or questions here or elsewhere.)
aaaah... thanks !
thank you 
can i vote in my own poll? (created one)
Yes, you can.
I use AI in Form of DeepL - for Example for the Forum here. But Stuff like ChatGPT not. And I don't plan to do. I find this ... wrong.
But I must say I have a more fundamental Problem with AI in general. So, I don't belong to the Target Group.
don't have a clue what you mean , i'll AI it ...
who's the target group ?