{"id":183,"date":"2026-06-07T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/?p=183"},"modified":"2026-06-07T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:22:12","slug":"writing-and-ai-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Writing and AI &#8211; Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If AI is not much use for doing the writing, how can it help?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think that it can be helpful in research. If you ask ChatGPT for something specific like &#8220;Describe the dress of a young law student in 1650s London. Give references.&#8221;, you get a reasonable answer and the references will allow you to check accuracy. Sometimes the references make it clear that answer is not as time accurate as you might like, but any major errors show up easily. Turning up and reading those references is likely much the same as doing your research from scratch, but the AI points you to useful ones very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this lazy? Or is it a useful saving of the author&#8217;s time that gives 90% of the result for maybe 50% of the effort? Good enough for a work of fiction, rather than an academic essay? Your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If AI is not much use for doing the writing, how can it help? I think that it can be helpful in research. If you ask ChatGPT for something specific like &#8220;Describe the dress of a young law student in 1650s London. Give references.&#8221;, you get a reasonable answer and the references will allow you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}