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Chat GPT told me that I could put my cat in the microwave. I mean yes, I could do that. But I wouldn’t. Because that would be awful.
High up people at my job think this is acceptable behavior to vomit text at people with this.
I hate it….
That sentence is a self-issued Certificate Of Stupidity.
Being accused of using ChatGPT for the crime of knowing how to properly use em dashes is far more infuriating.
I understand hating AI for it’s negative effects on the world.
What I don’t understand is people pretending that it isn’t generally speaking much better than manual search for most general knowledge queries.
If we count all the ads, all the SEO optimised spam, the hiding the one sentence of substance in a page long article, or the automatic summary of multiple sources, I don’t see how it isn’t (generally) better.
Sure, if you’re doing actual scientific research, don’t use AI. But everyday queries that 99% of people would do are (sadly) better served by AI.
I’m not saying that that’s good, just that it’s true. It’s weird to pretend reality doesn’t exist, just because it might involve giving AI credit for anything.
I wish this were true in my experience. Its definitely wrong enough that I have to fact-check results. And when the AI answer is correct it’s often adding in context that is incorrect or assumed.
This has led to more than a few uncomfortable conversations with people who live in this “reality” you speak of, where the oracle box spews only truth and that I’m weird for denying it.
I feel this so much.
Generally LLMs do generate some correct information, then also generate a bunch of useless and misleading text surrounding it.
Sometimes when starting out by prompting an LLM the resulting generated text makes it way faster to find what you are looking for. Other times it’s the opposite where a simple web search would have been faster. It feels like gambling for correct helpful information :(
But so many people trust LLM generated text without checking it. It’s exhausting trying to show them so mostly I don’t bother anymore…
finally an honest take that doesnt appear to be strictly the result of group think hate
Eh.
It’s in the same ballpark as “my buddy said this while we were high” or “my uncle posted this on Facebook” or “I saw this YouTube video…”
It turns out people, on average, have horrible information hygiene and little incentive to consider this. ChatGPT just made Facebook Uncle Facts more personalized and accessible, unfortunately.
No, because “my uncle” didn’t post a 6 paragraph essay that no one has ever read, but you are now expected to read.
Your uncle has, if he’s been linking SEO chum. That’s kinda where LLMs got it from.
People on Lemmy also have horrid information hygiene that’s just as bad even though a lot of people here like to pretend that they’re better than everyone.
Agreed, 100%.
What’s worse, few seem to care when a made-up post is pointed out.
“I googled”
Anything that isn’t on the first page of google might as well be lost to time.
At least your are sifting through different results and picked something through your own when “you googled”, it actually included a hint of what you were thinking as you click through links looking for what you are trying to find.
I had an Uber passenger that straight up said,“well I asked grok about restaurants around here…”
Like no infuriation, as much as pity.
I can barely use the internet anymore. I have to filter by date to get results from before 2024. Otherwise all the results are obvious AI trash.
When I tried to look up information about storing film negatives. Pretty obscure niche topic these days. The top pre-2024 result was from a well respected national archive, good informative page written by experts in the field.
By contrast, the current day results were an endless sea of random websites who all by sheer coincidence decided to start writing about film archival in the year 2025.
What about the even more tech illiterate and careless “I asked AI”?
How is that worse than “I asked chatgpt”?
Because it’s even less discerning and aware than knowing the names. Tech aware people may use chatgpt or even somebody may know the name… But people who think musk is a genius because he’s successful and think AI is actually intelligent just know it as whatever defaultism that’s being served to them and might notice it as AI.
It’s less knowledgeable and therefore indicative of it hitting the masses.
by now, saying “i did a search” and actually having done a search and found stuff AND shared the link feels like a “good skill to have” again.
my brother (14 y/ooooo sooooooo skibidi) uses mister gpt for all web searching which sucks big time. whenever he does use a real life search engine, hes surprised by the amount of stuff he finds by now.
EDIT: fixed some typos…
It would be a “good skill to have” if they haven’t actively been making search engines worse, so they can make AI look better.
How the fuck could AskJeeves from 20 years ago work better than search engines of today?
It’s not just them, it’s the SEO spam gaming the system.
AskJeeves would be utterly horrendous today because the web of its time is no longer feasible.
And who is the center cog of this ad-driven SEO apocalypse? Who runs basically all web advertising?
Well… Google, of course.
i believe search engines have been degrading prior to the LMs but might be misremembering…
No, I agree. One indicative moment was when Google stopped showing the “X million results found” and the results ended after 10-15 pages even when the keywords should have millions of results. This was noticed back in 2021.
I tried looking up the decline but…
It generally means the person made no effort and information should be taken with a grain of salt. Like “a quick Google”.
Off topic: If said in french “ChatGPT” translates back to “Cat, I farted” - you’re welcome
This is one of those things where you can be unhappy about it but also you’ve already lost this battle and you’re just going to look like fools in the future
Like when we see old news footage and newspaper articles from people who claimed Nintendo wouldn’t last longer than the early 80s Christmas season and that the Internet is a fad
AI is here and it’s not going away
Yeah, just like Betamax, HD-DVD, The Virtual Boy, Zune, Theranos, Viox, and Google Glass. Every technological innovation is always good, especially when they are force feeding them to you, LLMs are too big to fail spectacularly! It’s not an entirely pointless way for idiots to make computers do the exact same things they can already do but worse when you really look at it.
I’m in the software industry and I’m telling you that AI is not The Virtual Boy
It’s used from the bottom up. It dictates notes, makes cases, tracks meetings, does basic PR reviews, updates code, tests, writes tests, manages the Kanban board, etc…
It’s in your phone, it’s in your search engines, I made a phones call the other day and talked to an AI to navigate the phone system, I ordered by talking to an AI at a fast food place about a month ago, etc…
It’s here and it’s not going away
You can hate it, but in 20 years people are going to look back on “AI is dumb” posts and laugh
Betamax forever!
Edit: “I work for AI, it’s actually super rad!” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
So you think I don’t write software for a living or do you think my company doesn’t use AI?
I think you’re a shill.
for what?
Is this site full of 12 years old kids or something? How do you guys not know that AI has quickly become an integral part of many corporations day-to-day business routines?
What kind of businesses, though?
You are delusional. It can’t do even half of these things to a level that adds any value to the situation. A correction is coming.
what?
We do our meetings on Zoom and there is a Claude plug-in that was set up so that, during the meeting, we can just say, “Hey Claude” and then tell it to do something it will do that thing
Frequently we use it, during meetings, to make cases for jobs we need to do either that day or in the coming week. Claude has access to our Kanban board and so we can, and do, ask it to not only make or edit cases but also to move those cases around the board for us
After the meeting, this might be Zoom itself, we all get an AI document that goes over all of the things that were discussed in that meeting.
Claude-Code is literally an app you can download and it’s soul purpose is to access files on your computer and make changes to them.
Obviously Claude can write code (that’s what “Vibe Coding” is) but Claude-Code doesn’t just write it in the browser and then print it out on screen, it literally writes to files on your computer. You literally give it access to create, delete, update, and edit files on your machine. Because of this, not only can it write code for us, it can also write, and run, our automated tests. And setting this up so that these tests automatically run every hour or to run the relevant tests per PR is a simple task
So yes, Claude not only writes tests for us, it runs the tests. And since Claude can access the files on our computer we can literally tell Claude to do things in our app so, yes, Claude is the first level of testing
It can also read code, so it reads the code pushed and it reviews it. Claude can also approve or deny a PR if it finds something wrong. We still require two humans to review the code, but Claude goes first so I’m not wasting my time reviewing code with obvious problems
Voice-To-Text is not new and you are well aware of the fact that you can chat with AI right? Literally an AI program called “ChatGPT”. So when I talk it gets converted to text and sent to an AI, who responds and Text-To-Speech turns it back into a voice… so I can literally talk to AI
Which mean, yes, I can talk to AI to navigate a phone system or place an order at a fast food place; and I have done literally that
This isn’t even crazy stuff. This is like AI 101 at this point.
Obviously triggered something here. I’m not going to read all this.
I use AI. I’ve built agents from first principles. I’ve tried at these things. I’ve been down these roads.
I know where we stand right now and it’s not the place that delusional tech bros think we are standing.
You seem very invested in the idea that this needs to work out. Like it’s part of your identify now or something. You are defending this as if I attacked you personally.
Touch grass, talk to humans face to face.
“I didn’t read what you wrote but I know you’re wrong”
But yeah, you’re totally a super smart AI guy and we should all listen to you. I mean, you’re too lazy to read a few paragraphs on a web forum but you’ve definitely taken the time to study up on all the things AI is currently doing in the business world
Seems legit to me
I don’t need to read it because the length of the message tells me everything I need to know.
Being right in this case would prove self evident very quickly.
There is no argument to be had here. If AI is as useful and as inevitable as you say then why even argue for it so aggressively?
When people shout so loudly about how great ai is, its pretty clear what they are really saying.
Ugh. I once heard someone say “I did a chat” as slang for “asking ChatGPT”. It was a software vendor on a call regarding compatibility with our existing systems. We had concerns it wasn’t. They insisted it was, because they “did a chat” and ChatGPT said it was.
It wasn’t.
Should have gotten them to verify in writing they guaranteed it was compatible and then sued them for it lol
I vibe questioned, and got vibe answered 🌟
