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With the creation and use of ChatGPT and Bard, I bet ELI5 community and subreddit have had less posts, because people can just ask them instead. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Isn’t it still a thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It is. I've seen 'Write the Editor' sections often in the magazines I check out from the library from time to time. IIRC: Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, and The New Yorker have one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Newspapers? Depends who you ask

Jokes aside, I am not talking about the "write the editor" sections we see now. I am saying they'd use it like GOOGLE. You're not going to see someone ask "what's 32,344 divided by 7?" Or "who is the senator of idaho" In the new yorker.