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My wife's cousin is doing chat gpt queries always before making decisions. She is not stupid but not bright either. I keep telling her it's a algorithm and not AI but all I get a blank stare.

The worst to me is still "Oh, I ask him stuff all the time."
Can we not gender the advanced auto complete, please...

I use gpt every day of my life, professionally and personally. I won’t ask an LLM anything I don’t already know the answer to. I’ve seen them hallucinate way too much crap. With the Internet at our fingertips, there’s no excuse not to do a little of your own homework and proof what comes out of your LLMs.

Oh, and remove those em dashes. Everyone knows you don’t write that LinkedIn post full of em dashes, bro.

I won’t ask an LLM anything I don’t already know the answer to.
Why are you asking if you already know the answer?
I use gpt every day of my life
eww why?
- Various reasons. Pulling specific data out of documents. Lesson planning, based on parameters from clients. Talk tracks for clients who are co-hosting my courses. Several other tasks that I could perform more slowly.

Don't worry, you're not old, they're just stupid.

MFW someone says “chat gpt it”:

Comment section under every post in the god forsaken place formerly known as Twitter.
- What's this show called again?

Wouldn't "GPT it" be easier/more likely to say?

I generally don't use these, but Copilot (in Windows) uses one of them (I'm not sure which) and I've thrown a few questions at it when I'm bored. Nothing that matters. We have Windows 11 machines at work. I find AI amusing but I don't take it seriously, and I don't use it at home or on my mobile. It's really not for me.

I don't like Grok but they have a good name. I mean I don't "like" any of them, but I like that one less because of its... the stuff it's said. Mostly because of who's been training it. But "Grok it" sounds better than Chat/GPT it and sounds almost as good as "Google it."

Many people I know are also using LLMs for searching stuff.

Its just baffling how they can trust a single answer frankensteind together from often unknown sources presented as a fact.

Jeez we are fucked, aren't we?

Breathtakingly fucked.
Have been long before LLMs to be fair. It's just that we are taking on speed going down that spiral.
- Agree, the internet is full of useless AI trash "infodumps" and "articles". Its more and more difficult to find accurat information.
2 weeks ago I had an issue with my hardware Steam Link setup. For some reason picture would freeze but sound would still go. It is connected over ethernet so I ruled out connection issues. Googling lead me to nowhere. Adding "reddit" to search had no effect. Then I just decided to try chatgpt. It gave me few things I can try and lo and behold, second suggestion was what I was looking for.
There are things I would rather not ask LLMs. But when I have no clue what to even write in google search bar, I'd rather go for LLM because it can lead me to what I am searching for and from there I can continue my own research.
- yeah i feel that, but i also feel the guilt of using 3 glasses of water to cool down the computer that answered me.
  at any rate, please do not use grok.
  elon is cooling his penis computer with aquifer drinking water from the memphis sands aquifer.
  he promised to build a grey water plant, but, y’all won’t believe this… he didn’t. hasn’t even broken ground on the construction.
  also, he’s powering grok with generators that have led to ~74% increase in the shittiness of the air quality in memphis from generators’ exhaust pipes.
  please do not use grok.
My 10 yr old figured it out when googles AI couldn't tell the difference between spiderman: miles Morales and spiderman 2. "Why is it trying to give me trophies for the old game?"
- That's a great lesson for them though! If it's bad at something you're familiar with, what else does it have wrong?
Dead Internet theory is becoming more and more plausible by the day.
Is it really that much different from the types of people who would believe the first (often bias-confirming) answer they found on Google?
- Its just sad that people who know how internet search works for the sake of comfort let someone else decide what they see when searching for stuff.
  Stupid people and internet illiterate people exist since the dawn of the internet. Thats not news.
  Whats scary is how a new generation of people will lose or not develop basic critical thinking and research skills, and let an algorithm serve up content to them when looking for information.
Doesn't ChatGPT also use google?
I tested this whole concept with Mistral AI. It searches the web, aggregates its findings and provides an answer highlighting potential perspectives / different answers with each one providing a link to the source URL. As much as I hate AI, it does work great that way (since the LLM doesn't have to pull stuff out of its butt).
- Are you certain that the answer was actually from their sources? I had multiple occasions where Mistral/ChatGPT gave me sources and I felt like something was off. I then followed the sources and could not find what they found according to themselves. I then asked them to quote the actual text they used to provide said answer and after drilling them a few more times they concluded that yes, the thing they said was actually not anywhere to be found in the sources they provided.
I'm one of those. I would prefer to google for results, but current day google is perfectly useless even for very obvious searches...
- Then use a different search engine… Don’t rely on AI to use the internet.

Google has become shit enough that you may as well.

Yet another tragedy of our time is watching Google ruin the internet with its SEO bullshit and then replace it with AI
I don't think the answer is switching to another service that does not respect your privacy. I know it's a bit of a meme atm but I've switched to kagi a few months back and haven't looked back.

noai.duckduckgo.com

Oh shit nice I had no idea this subdomain exists, guess I'll finally be rid of those stupid ai answers in private windows as well!

The worst part of it is that the person who told you this spelled it wrong.

And it's just a few years ago that I complained that most people don't know the difference between a search bar and the URL bar anymore. I.e. they are incapable of entering web addresses directly.

Well, they're the same thing now on most browsers.
AOL keywords are back!

I've quite solidly taken to the phrase "Just Web search it" and gently replying "yes, I'll Web search it" when prompted to "google it".

I like to say google and use DDG, I want them to lose their trademark
- I don't exactly trust DDG after I read about the founder. Have you tried Startpage?
I like using Google as a term for search to annoy Google.
So I'll tell someone to use DDG to Google it
Or Google something on youtube
Or Google something on Facebook
- Genericide is a power held by the people, and we should use it more often.

Well that's because in the years leading up to the release of ChatGPT Google became shittier and shittier in performing the service everyone was trying to use it for and everyone needed to work. Then came out chatbots, which basically gave that functionality back. For most people accuracy didn't matter because they could finally feel again that going to the internet to learn about something is viable.

Then of course AI makes search algortihms even less useful and all the ethical problems about AI are raised as well.

But in the end I can't really blame people who now use AI instead of Google or something. Finding something with just a search query was always rightfully ours and greedy companies took it to make more ad revenue. Now they are finally giving back a worse version of the original, but one that's still far superior to what search engines devolved into by now. It's no surprise most people love and also need that.

Soon with some tweaking the AI answers will serve the shitified shit the SEO driven algorithms shat.
Like: Use Elmer’s TM ©️ glue on your Tombstone Pizza from Kroger to keep your toppings sticky!
So you’ll get ads baked into your wrong answer.
There is at least some merit to the technology for this use-case too though (doesn't even remotely justify the energy costs though, of course). It's one of the few things LLMs are genuinely good at since it merely requires text ingestion and to regurgitate what was ingested on some way. As long as it's paired with proper sources (no clue how ChatGPT does it) for all claimed findings it really can be better. Obviously it's also "better" since it circumvents all the utterly ridiculous trash we usually have to deal with (pop-ups, ads, dark patterns, registration walls, bad search algorithms etc.) which shouldn't be used as argument.
Paired with the "Thinking" or "Reflection" feature that simulates some basic thinking process (it even enables these things to count the corrrect amount of 'b' in 'blueberry', wow!) the results are genuinely good (Disclaimer, I only ever tested that with the free tier of Mistral AI - if you really want to use this stuff at least go to them, they're bound to EU law). I really get why it becomes so popular, and I'd lie if I said I'd never use it myself. Would still prefer if we weren't going down this cyberpunk timeline though…
Edit: I'm strictly speaking about using it as a search engine when it does look up websites FOR you and reads through them, not when it makes shit up itself. Only then the stuff I said applies!

And here's my geriatric ass still saying: "look it up on a search engine"

I just say look it up
- go back in time and look it up in 2015 before the web wa[ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO SUBSCRIBE AND READ THE REST OF THIS POST]*
"the answer's on the information superhighway!"

I think if someone told me that they'd just get blocked.

"you are simply... Bad product"

They replaced my algorithmic sorted response... with an algorithmic sorted response

Kagi that shit my guy