<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpc0b0b633yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style=""><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">Hi all and happy 2025. I've been approached by a friend who is having to do Best Interests Assessor training in order to keep their job with a social services department and is struggling with the essay drafting. Would you be willing to comment on their recent letter to me and perhaps offer advice and signposting - it's not something I've explored beyond the most superficial of use cases. Thanks in anticipation. They write:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><div style=""><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font size="2">I'll also be able to share with you my a.i. journey of navigating different AI essay writing tools. It's been like trying to tame an unruly beast, although unruly in the sense of its default to simplify everything when am needing the opposite of that. It's extremely hard to get them to give specific quotes in quotation marks and page references, even if asked explicitly, and even when claiming to have access to journal data bases (in the way that Chat GPT/Gemini don't). I am prepared to pay a subscription but the best one I found (Samwell a.i) only allows a year subscription of about £100 min and that still doesn't do quotes.</font></div><div dir="ltr" style=""><font size="2"><br clear="none"></font></div><div dir="ltr" style=""><font size="2">(am not planning on submitting an AI written essay but I need more quotes with page numbers to back up stuff. I wonder if the very nature if AI is to pull from a wide range of sources so its almost counter to its programming to be specific. I'm surprised though because the research one I used does pull out specific journals so don't know why it's so hard to find a quote from the journal)</font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px;" data-setdir="false">Paul</div></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpc0b0b633signature" style="font-size: 16px;"><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp2f46093bpasted-link"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:inherit;"><font size="1" style="background-color: inherit;">PAUL COLLEY | </font></span><font size="1"><span style="background-color:inherit;">pchcolley@yahoo.co.uk | +</span></font><span style="font-size:x-small;">44 7862 175114 </span></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p style="font-size:12px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" dir="ltr" class="ydp2610c683p1"><span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>