[worrycue]

Your professors generally don’t make stuff up if they don’t know something. Your professors are also more likely to catch on if something doesn’t make sense - unlike ChatGPT which can’t seem to reason effectively because most of the time it doesn’t know what’s it’s talking about.*

* Maybe it has the ability to reason, maybe not. Maybe it just needs more information - after all it’s trying to model reality with just the words used to describe it. Or maybe it really can’t reason at all, a limitation of its algorithm, and has to rely on having arguments/explanations already memorised - which seems to be mostly what it does now. Either way so far it hasn’t demonstrated that it’s all that good at reasoning.

[sosodev]

Some of them most certainly did make stuff up. Ego prevents many people from admitting that they don't know something.

I also interacted with some who wouldn't even admit to being wrong when they were confronted with facts. So I don't know that I would say they catch on either.

[worrycue]

I feel most won’t risk it. It’s less embarrassing to say you don’t know than to be wrong.