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This has happened before: the embrace of spreadsheets like Lotus 1-2-3 by users who were seduced by their power on a PC desktop may have led to the financial excesses of the late 1990s.</div>
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<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45869772_Spreadsheets_and_the_Financial_Collapse" id="LPlnk909300">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45869772_Spreadsheets_and_the_Financial_Collapse</a></div>
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Paul Ceruzzi</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 7, 2025 5:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Troy Astarte <t.k.astarte@swansea.ac.uk>; Ceruzzi, Paul <CeruzziP@si.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Sigcis <members@sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Perplexity, or ML tools in historical research</font>
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<div class="PlainText">External Email - Exercise Caution<br>
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Cherry-picking one sentence from Troy:<br>
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> What I have not found so far is whether there is any requirement to declare the use of ML-based tools in their research.<br>
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Since Google now starts with an "AI summary", even Google searches would need to be declared under such a rule.<br>
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(Try googling "Does Google AI hallucinate?")<br>
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DuckDuckGo is heading in the same direction, but more carefully: <a href="https://spreadprivacy.com/duckassist-launch/">
https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspreadprivacy.com%2Fduckassist-launch%2F&data=05%7C02%7CCeruzziP%40si.edu%7Cea9a69451bab48abb56408dd8daa2fec%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C638822484297266330%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0OB7RjvvFEsBhJ7x09%2BgqX%2FBszm5Z%2F6OZKtXQDdmAFc%3D&reserved=0</a><br>
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Regards<br>
Brian Carpenter<br>
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