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Jonathan S. Jones
@_jonathansjones
Historian @JMU | US Civil War era, History of Medicine | Writing "Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans & Opiate Addiction” | proud firstgen, ex-janitor, views mine
Mar 15, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
There’s been a lot of apocalyptic rhetoric about how ChatGPT spells doom for History and the humanities. I understand—or at least, I did. Until I used ChatGPT. If History dies, it won’t be ChatGPT that killed it.

Short thread, #twitterstorians 1/7 I’ve had positive experiences teaching with ChatGPT, so I wanted to see how high it could fly. I selfishly(?) asked it to do research my very niche area of research, drugs and the US Civil War. Honestly, I wanted to know if it could replace me. 2/7