• Zagorath ( Zagorath@aussie.zone ) English
    43·
    10 months ago

    The amount of times I’ve seen people arguing online (on more mainstream social media), and one comes in to prove their case by sharing a screenshot of the AI answers Google is putting at the top of their searches now. So fucking frustrating.

    My experience seeing that happen: about 50% of the time the AI is supporting the person correctly. About 50% it’s supporting the wrong person. And 100% of the time, I just wonder…how do you actually think sharing a screenshot of the AI is supporting your argument‽ Like, fine, I can get it if the AI answer is good enough for you in a casual conversation among friends, or to sate your own personal curiosity. But when you’re in a heated debate online, it just makes you look like an idiot. Even when you’re actually right.

  • webghost0101 ( webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ) 
    14·
    10 months ago

    The problem with this is actually not AI its the lack of respect on the human part.

    If you don’t want to have a conversation there are much friendlier ways to express this.

    I am an introvert but have often employed the trick of asking about something you already know just to break the ice. (And stay within a comfortable topic)

  • Zagorath ( Zagorath@aussie.zone ) English
    12·
    10 months ago
    Transcription

    A three-panel comic. On the left is a person with grey messy hair reading a book called “Book of Incomplete Information”. On the right is a person with brown neat hair, looking at their phone.

    In the first panel, there is the following dialogue:

    Left: Hey do you know how to—

    Right: Just ask ChatGPT

    Second panel, Left stares angrily at Right, as Right scares back, wide-eyed with fear.

    Third panel is a close-up on Right’s face, as Left’s fist punches them.

  • twinnie ( twinnie@feddit.uk ) 
    9·
    10 months ago

    Frankly I find the AI hate kind of tiresome itself. ChatGPT is just another source of information, it can be right and wrong, as can a webpage a books or a person. Nowadays all the people who think they’re smart just tell you to Google an answer yourself; in the early 00s people were the same about finding answers on the internet. If you had the answer to a question and told people you’d read it on the internet they’d smirk at you and tell you to read a book (which could also be wrong).

    • TotallynotJessica ( TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) OPEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      As other people have stated, it will fundamentally never be a “source of information.” Trust can be built in sources and their information can be verified, but since LLMs guess answers based on what it thinks sounds right, you’ll still need independent information to even know if it’s right. This makes it completely redundant. It doesn’t matter how powerful it becomes; it will never do things it is not invented to do.

      The real tragedy is that machine learning is a powerful technology, but people don’t know its limits and misuse the tech as a result.

  • cm0002 ( cm0002@toast.ooo ) 
    8·
    10 months ago

    I think the hate needs to be properly directed towards the companies pushing it and not the tech itself. Because that’s pretty much here to stay.

    And it does have good utility, in tailored ways wielded by people who know what they’re doing (e.g. you should be an experienced programmer already so you can catch when it’s fucking up or just doing things on a weird way)

    Companies that use it over creatives (e.g. using it for ads or animation for a commercial product) can also fuck off and die

    • TotallynotJessica ( TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) OPEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Some hate can be spared for ignorant assholes who push poor uses for the tech in the most dickhead way possible. The tech being “here to stay” does not mean the uses people think it has are. It will never be an authoritative source of info, nor can it be trusted to do most things people think it can. It can fill in for large scale data crunching that would not be possible otherwise, but it will always have significant uncertainty and lack of accountability that keep it from being an alternative to certain things.