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by St_Alfonzo 659 days ago
When I don't get something useful with search terms, I often try to ask AI like ChatGPT:

> One famous case that somewhat aligns with this is the Société Générale trading scandal involving Jérôme Kerviel. Kerviel, a former trader at Société Générale, used his knowledge of the bank's systems to make unauthorized trades worth billions of euros, though it was more complex than just modifying a VB script in Excel.
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AtlasBarfed 659 days ago
It's interesting because when I do anything like that I don't look at the language information in the AI response.

Yours is a good example. All I'm looking for is the key names that would enable me to actually get the real information without AI repackaging, which I assume to be flawed.

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St_Alfonzo 659 days ago
I agree with you on that. In ChatGPT's answer, for me only names and keywords are relevant, which I can then use to start another search, and I ignore the rest of the “noise”. I was also more trying to show with my post that I occasionally use A.I. when I can only vaguely remember something and thus am not even sure what the right search terms for a classic web search would be. Like humans, ChatGPT is often able to extract the right information from imprecise, anecdotal messages and then provide suitable answers that I can then use for my further search.
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