The problem with “Perfect” Answers – ryan

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A useful blog post Reporting on Interesting Research: Munoz, R. (2024, October 15). The problem with “Perfect” Answers: Genai and Academic Research Tools. https://er.educuse.edu/articles/2024/10/the-problem-with-perfect-answers-genai-and-cadearch-tools
Library Roberta Muñoz Talks about the problem when People get so used to search Engines, he etc. DELIVERING THE ASSWERS THEY ExPECT, that People get frustrated and baffled we are present with information that isn’t exactly tailored to their preferences. This is drawing on someone research by xu et al., Namely:
XU, R., Le, N., Park, R., Murray, L., Das, V., Kumar, D. & Goldberg, B. (2024). New Contexts, Old Heuristics: How Young People in India and the US Trust Online Content in the Age of Generation AI.

“We have conducted in-person ethnography in india and the us to investigate how you People (18-24) Trusted Online Content, Just as Generation AI (Genai) Became Mainstream. “Information Modes.” Our Participants Reflexively see BETWEEN TO MAINTAIN “EMOTIONAL EQUILIBRUM,” and Eschewed Engaging Skills in The Modes in Which. Emerging ones (ie, genai). this led to use Ill-fofing Trust heuristics, and exposed to the risk of trusting and misleading information. Expens of Accuracy.

ALSO LINKED FROM Muñoz’s blog post is a news a news report on xu et al .’s research
Rogers, A. (2024, April 25). The Secret Digital Behaviors of Gen Z. Business Insider.

Unfortunately, althouough i was able to read this free a couple of days ago, it is now asking with Money, so i’m relay on my memory for what was in it. The think The author of the research Paper is quoted as saying that initially they were investigating information Literacy, butn that discarded that idea becuse what the genus were doing were information Literacy. That seames a bit narrow, SINCE ITEEMS TO THAT WHAT XU EL. have done is information Behavior Research, Which Could Be Used to Engage With The Participants to Development Ideas of Context-Appropriate IL (WHOCH WOULDN’T INVOLVE Totally Changing their Ib, But Being More aware of what they are doing, whic culing shifts in in in behaviour).
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