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ChatGPT brainstorms essays but lacks depth and practical insight

A user shared their first experience using ChatGPT for essay brainstorming, noting that the AI provided broad ideas but lacked depth and practical, real-world considerations. The user found that ChatGPT offered many possibilities but required significant prompting for detail and demonstrated no understanding of sociological feasibility or practical experience. AI

IMPACT Highlights limitations in AI's ability to provide nuanced, practical, and context-aware assistance for creative tasks.

RANK_REASON User's personal experience and opinion on using ChatGPT for a specific task.

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ChatGPT brainstorms essays but lacks depth and practical insight

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · JeffC1956 ·

    Today for the first time I used chatGPT for some help on an essay brainstorm. It goes very wide and not very deep: you do have to push it on the details of thin

    Today for the first time I used chatGPT for some help on an essay brainstorm. It goes very wide and not very deep: you do have to push it on the details of things. Plus it has absolutely no idea of what actions are sociologically feasible, it just throws them all out there. In ot…