Im convinced they made search engines worse to promote AI usage.
Search engines were returning shit more and more, before LLMs even existed.
So they were enshittifying search engines in advance, so what? AI wasn’t born yesterday.
I’ve never seen convincing arguments for that. However, if you think about it, Google wants you to stay scrolling through it forever. The more sponsored links and ads they can show, the more money they make. They didn’t need to make it worse for AI, they made it worse for profit
Im encountering alot of AI created websites that explain concepts like “side effects of X pill” (a recent example) and there was basically no real medical websites in the top results, Just clearly AI using thousands of words to say nothing that I cant trust.
I was considering locally hosting a search engine to circumvent my need for them entirely. Search engine optimization seems like a nightmare, if they were trying to give me useful results. So im not sure if that would be a spend 5 hours to save 5 minutes situation.
As you and others said, Its been getting worse for years so its probably just a coincidence that its also profitable for AI.
They are great if you know what the right answer is just don’t know how to get it right now
Asking genAI questions I already know the answer to is how I know the AI is wrong more than it is right.
Yeah, but I can copy paste the code and then fix it quickly.
They’re regularly properly useful to me but it’s pointless to get in arguments in their defense. 🤷
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I’m well aware of the limitations of LLMs and I use them when it works.
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Have you seriously applied them at all?
Wow, you mean a random stranger on the internet isn’t as good at something as you?? Say it ain’t so!
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“If you use LLMs you’re dumb and bad.” You’re literally a toxic gamer telling someone to “git gud.” Imagine calling someone stupid because they said they use a tool to help them solve a problem. Are people who use calculators brain-dead idiots then?
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Welcome to the real world. A lot of use are either disabled, or have been left behind, then shoved in the workforce so we can’t resolve those issues, and drained of resources as well.
Demonstrably bad at research and math, yes. So don’t use them for that purpose. A lot of work is being put into this area though, so it might change in the future.
Basic writing? That’s such a broad task. As evaluated by what metric? One thing they’re very good at is writing texts that sound like they’re written by a human. If that’s what you need, then they’re great for the task. Especially so if you need a lot of it. I wouldn’t say that the ability to write a thousand words per minute is a foundational skill for anyone.
Not to be a dick, but this reveals more about your own limitations than it does about the power of LLMs…
It just means you suck at prompting, which is basically just talking and explaining what you need
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Two things can be true. They have limitations and are useful. Hammers have limitations too. It’s not their fault if you always miss the nail
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You went out of your way to tell someone that if they find llms used full it means they are stupid and not as good as you. But now that your argument doesn’t hold any water you don’t get to play the “you are expecting validation from me” card.
You have a superiority complex. Get over it and stop trying to tell other people how to live their lives just because you can’t use a hammer
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Ah, to live a life where ones problems can be solved by an LLM. It sounds so… simple and pleasant. 🫀
…NOT!
It’s just big tech selling convenience for the trillionth time, this time in another form. They are NOT doing out of good will; they’re doing it to sell your data, to train their ai on it (alongaide their pirated media), and do other nefarious stuff with everything you have.
…NOT!
I promise you, as someone overcome with sadness from watching the so-far unsolvable problems of mankind that will lead to the end of the world as we know it - Living a life where one believe simulated intelligence could solve anything at all is a dream. Ignorance is bliss.
It’s just big tech selling convenience for the trillionth time
No, once more they’re selling the impression of convenience. I.e. having the entire backend exposed to hackers because it was so convenient to vibe-code access control is not a real convenience.
They are NOT doing out of good will
Only idiots argue for such an intention.
they’re doing it to sell your data, to train their ai on it
No, they’re doing it to harvest our data. This allows them to use machine learning on the datasets but more traditionally, build profiles on their users. Access to the profiles is what they’re selling, not direct access to log data.
and do other nefarious stuff with everything you have
Then they need to step up their game as I’m self-hosting everything on a home-server. But I know what you mean. They want to do downright evil stuff with everything they can get their dirty, sticky paws on.
Ignorance is bliss
How do you even ignore the shitshow that is the world, which you live in; and therefore must care some amount?
That’s the world we all dream of, right? We work on what we want to with the robots keeping the houses in check and taking care of the menial admin- and paperwork and in the evenings we all sit together by the campfire with the robots bringing us food and drink as we rejoice in talking to each other about the day’s experiences.
That doesn’t seem to be the world that we’re moving towards though…
Me yesterday, except I only thought it figured it out, then found out hours later I must revert back to my workaround because it didn’t really work fully and was fragile as fuck.
me, vibe-debugging my Debian machine
The AI actually solved psychological barriers I had (along with co-workers forcing me to open up), they were quite the wombo combo.
Then I got far worse ones from work. I’m now basically an anti-pleasure monk that is trying to decouple happiness from success, just trying to accumulate power and money instead.
