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Alt Text: an image of Agent Smith from The Matrix with the following text superimposed, "1999 was described as being the peak of human civilization in 'The Matrix' and I laughed because that obviously wouldn't age well and then the next 25 years happened and I realized that yeah maybe the machines had a point."

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Gawd, me too. They've started scraping my LinkedIn recommenders to try bait me in.

For context, I work at a university. The subject was something like "xxxxxx recommends you for a company like us" implying my contact had actually been behind it, but obviously they didn't.

Hi saltesc,

Saw on LinkedIn that xxxxxx highlighted your industry expertise and dedication to client success—sounds like you're pivotal in driving both xxxxxx and solid outcomes for your clients!

By the way, any chance you'd be interested in using AI to get total visibility of all your data?

Our AI data analytics solution specializes in helping companies in the higher education industry do exactly that.

With Knowi, you can effortlessly get answers to questions like:

  • What is the percentage increase in graduate employment rates from diverse student demographics over the past three years, including international learners?

  • How many new educational offerings have been developed annually at xxxxxx to enhance skills development within the community, including international students?

It's like ChatGPT, but for your data!

Open to learning more?

All the best, xxxxxx xxxxxx Business Growth

And obviously it reads like it was written by one of the GPTs.

Had they seen our profiles, they'd actually know what it is we do and how ridiculous recommending a chat AI is. That's sooooo beneath our knowledge and expertise. Like a random suggesting Ivermectin to Dr Faucci.

[–] termaxima@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

From their example, seems like all they’ve “innovated” is a new, less reliable way to write database queries !

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. And query languages being some of the quickest and fastest things an analyst can do with 100% knowledge of the data and any wrangling/conditions that need to be done to assure accurate results.

A bot would never be able to accurately answer these questions off my data unless I thoroughly trained and tested it. But if it's GPT-based, I'd always have to double-check so it'd just be a hinderence in workflow. There is no way money would be paid to a third-party for such a situation.

[–] termaxima@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

Since there’s a mathematical proof that LLMs without hallucinations are impossible, I think this kind of usage is a lost cause.