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Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI (gizmodo.com)
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[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 97 points 3 months ago (30 children)

I had to explain to three separate family members what it means for an Ai to hallucinate. The look of terror on their faces after is proof that people have no idea how "smart" a LLM chatbot is. They have been probably using one at work for a year thinking they are accurate.

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Idk how anyone searches the internet anymore. Search engines all turn up so I ask an AI. Maybe one out of 20 times it turns up what I'm asking for better than a search engine. The rest of the time it runs me in circles that don't work and wastes hours. So then I go back to the search engine and find what I need buried 20 pages deep.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I usually skip the AI blurb because they are so inaccurate, and dig through the listings for the info I'm researching. If I go back and look at the AI blurb after that, I can tell where they took various little factoids, and occasionally they'll repeat some opinion or speculation as fact.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At least fuck duck go is useful for video games specifically, but that one more or less just copy pasted from the wiki, reddit, or a forum shits the bed with EUV specifically though.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

fuck duck go

This is the one time in all of human history where autocorrecting "fuck" to "duck" would've been correct.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Worst part is I'm pretty sure it autocorrected duck to fuck cause I've poisoned my phones autocorrect with many a profanities.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Usually the blurb is pure opinion.

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