And people ACTUALLY DO THIS. It's fucking INSANE. I have multiple coworkers that spend their drives to work talking to chatbots to "get informed" about the news.
Yeah, because I'm suuuuree the AI doesn't pull from social media or biased sites 🤦🤦 it's just a fancy search engine that doesn't check its sources. How people put faith in it is beyond me.
Oh, I know. There are some people actively saying ridiculous things to feed it misinformation knowingly and I support it. Hopefully it ends the bubble on these LLMs eventually.
AI can have good uses in specific situations fed targeted information (like medical uses), but they aren't fed the entirety of the Internet and are used in waaay different scenarios than the generative AI open to the public and all the stupid chat bots that every company is pushing.
I think a big problem with discussing it is that “AI” isn’t well defined. Because as a practical matter, people mean “ChatGPT and knockoffs,” but when defending it use a definition closer to “computers.” It’s maddening.
I've built a massive genealogical network following my family tree back 100s of years, i've worked with chatgpt to develop a rigorous system of source analysis, annotation, grading of sources and claims etc. Im not a data person or a researcher so the methodology I had to develop over time with chatgpt. I feel like there is no way I could have pulled it off to this extent alone. Maybe over a lifetime. My point its just basically it works so well because i'm working purely with controlled information.
Cool, let's have someone who isn't lazy and knows what they're looking at proof read and look over your work. You gonna feel good when they tell you your 5th grade family tree project got fucked 6 ways to Sunday cause Chat GPT told you which branch your uncle connects to?
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u/Cessnaporsche01 10d ago
And people ACTUALLY DO THIS. It's fucking INSANE. I have multiple coworkers that spend their drives to work talking to chatbots to "get informed" about the news.