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Don’t Ask AI Which Rocks You Can Lick. (www.proofnews.org)
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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 27 points 9 months ago (21 children)

I still don't understand why people are asking these things any questions at all.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Google has been rolling out a thing where an AI result is the first thing that pops up, often taking up the whole screen lol. I’ve personally witnessed tons of people google something normally, then just go with whatever the AI says.

Makes me shake my head, but it’s not like they were very discerning with their sources before all this nonsense, either. Hopefully they don’t rely on it for any important medical advice down the road

[–] trollblox_@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

that Google AI is so shit. I just paraphrases the top result

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't paraphrasing/summarizing the top result a pretty good use case for LLMs? If I search "what temperature should I bake cupcakes at?" I really just want a simple answer, not dozens of links to life story style recipe blogs.

DDG didn't provide a summary, but Google did (and it was very long). I assumed the answer was 350F, but the summary suggested 325-375. Lower for flatter cupcakes, higher for more domed. Interesting.

This type of summary wouldn't be nearly as helpful for a technical programming question, but I doubt that describes the bulk of search queries.

[–] trollblox_@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

I wasn't arguing about it's accuracy, I was attacking it's need to exist. fuck AI, I'm tired of hearing that acronym. can't wait for this shit to go away like every tech fad in the last decade

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