ChatGPT calculated taxing U.S. billionaires at the 22% rate of average Texans would generate $161 billion to $1.37 trillion annually depending on how you tax.
Edit: I posted this because I would imagine LLMs to have readily accessible figures that random reporters may not.
ChatGPT was cited as source. That’s not terrible. To not double-check those numbers is not great, but we aren’t doomed because it was cited. We would be doomed if this became the norm.
If I can’t cite Wikipedia as a source in a school paper, journalists shouldn’t be allowed to cite ChatGPT for an article.
Research is part of their job.