Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I use it as a search engine too. You can ask most LLMs to cite a claim. Then you can evaluate the claim based on the credibility of the source. They're somewhat decent at summarizing and the corollary is that they're somewhat decent at going through a lot of material to find something that might be what you're looking for. It's all about the verification of the source though.
They may work as seach engine, but they omit information, so the results are only the AI-approved ones. They are like horseblinders limiting your field of vision while also letting you see the range of tolerable or preferred ideas. They may also lead you down the wrong directio, distract you
Any information brokers will have bias, that's not unique to AI.
The bias in ai is unique to ai https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/qh3dbdm9/release/2
That source does not disagree with my statement that all information brokers have bias. It also does not address the fact that you can verify the source the LLMs give you.
Yeah, LLMs have consistently broken information fire walls on initial release. We're actually pretty bad at biasing them intentionally (so far, this is definitely solvable).
The point of a search engine is to omit irrelevant information, but what is relevant is extraordinarily hard/subjective/nuanced. Compare with, say, YouTube demonetization.