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Observing trends on the internet (on message boards like Reddit), it appears there are a growing number of learners who are using (or attempting to use) ChatGPT as a resource for learning the Japanese language, such as by asking the AI questions about Japanese grammar, but asking it to make up example sentences using words, or -- in one of the more extreme cases I saw -- asking it to make up an entire story in Japanese, which the learner then used as reading practice.
Is ChatGPT a good resource for learning the Japanese language? Do you think that Japanese grammatical explanations, example sentences, and the like can be trusted to be generally accurate, or will they often contain mistakes and misinformation -- and even worse, contain such errors without making it clear to the user that they are potentially erroneous, thus leading to the possibility of the learner internalizing mistaken knowledge?
Is ChatGPT a good resource for learning the Japanese language? Do you think that Japanese grammatical explanations, example sentences, and the like can be trusted to be generally accurate, or will they often contain mistakes and misinformation -- and even worse, contain such errors without making it clear to the user that they are potentially erroneous, thus leading to the possibility of the learner internalizing mistaken knowledge?