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1. James_K ◴[] No.42131804[source]
> Compare your ideas against history’s greatest thinkers

What made these people great thinkers is their minds rather than their writing styles. I'm not sure that chatbots get smarter when you tell them to impersonate someone smart, because in humans, this usually has the reverse effect.

> AI excels at automating tedious, time-consuming tasks like formatting citations

Programs like LaTeX also excel at this kind of work and will probably be more reliable in the long run.