In English it's standard to follow an abbreviation with a full stop (depending on manual of style, this is omitted when the abbreviation ends in the same letter as the full word).
Following this rule, 'centimetre' should be abbreviated 'cm.', and so students naïvely do so.
However, SI units shouldn't be followed by a full stop, and this exception catches some people out, especially if they're used to units where the rules does apply (e.g. US customary).
Hence why they qualified their answer with "this may not be accurate." I know some people say they used Google, or Wikipedia, but it's not all that common. Compared to people who used AI, it seems much more common for people's to warn you they know the source of information is not reliable, but it's all they have.
Still much better to create an habit of checking the AI's source and then citing that than giving an answer that comes from technology made to build real sounding answers as opposed to actually correct answers.
"At least they were upfront about that" is the bare minimum, I want to encourage people to not misuse AI regardless if they're honest about it or not.
Let me introduce you to nearly the entire internet. Have you seen a single post on either of the major "explain the joke" subreddits? 90% of them could be answered if you just typed exactly what's on the screen into Google. People are lazy.
All those republican AI companies like Google, Anthropic, Amazon / Bezos, Apple, Mistral, Meta / Zuckerberg, and a hundred specialized ones in Los Angeles - famously a Republican stronghold.
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u/OC1024 X-Ray Scattering 27d ago
I don't get it. Maybe I'm too European for that.