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I started using chatbots yesterday and it surprised me how complete and articulate answers are. Main topics would be apparel, sewing, cooking, finance, ETFs, taxes, house maintenance, retirement.

Do you consider AI good enough to substitute human interaction? Because I remember a south park episode where randy marsh ignores his wife to interact exclusively with a bot. A parody of course but we have already plenty of AI porn and AI short stories for gullible people… and it works because they don’t stop watching (and sometimes believe it to be real).

I was always kind of an anti AI guy due to privacy, to avoid LLMs monetizing my questions and because I didn't want to be a moron who has nothing better to do than to watch AI slop, but this is a tool so pervasive and practical I’m only isolating myself if I opt out of it. Thoughts?

Are there any questions you won’t ask a bot so the company behind it doesn’t monetize your input?

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah. To me this all boils down to "I don't want to put in the effort but I want the reward."

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk -1 points 2 days ago

How is any of it your business and how is that different from simply going out and buying a ready made product?

I want a product that doesn’t exist. I get an LLM to create it from my ideas and requirements and then I get the product. How does that affect you?

A few months ago I wanted a cheap solar powered moisture monitor for some plants that would transmit over BLE. I researched it, laid out what I needed, soldered it together, designed and printed a case for it all. LLM provided about 20 lines of code for the Pico inside it to broadcast out the sensor info. I’ve done Python and C in the past but I don’t enjoy and have no interest in learning it again. Because the LLM did the coding I was able to do the rest of it which I enjoyed. I got to have fun building that and somehow that’s upset you.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago

I get that, but I don't claim to know that person's situation, and personally wouldn't presume.

Many people are overloaded already and have limited time, energy and motivation to learn and master a certain new skill. If that person was producing AI slop or something like that, then that would be a different story to me.