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.
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.”
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?
It’s from Finding Nemo
I think if someone told me that they’d just get blocked.
The worst part of it is that the person who told you this spelled it wrong.
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 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.
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?
Startpage is majority owned by an ad company
Startpage is the business, can confirm. Only default on FF on my work computer though, boo to Safari (and the dumb add on that doesn’t actually add it).
“you are simply… Bad product”
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.
AOL keywords are back!
Well, they’re the same thing now on most browsers.
This started when phones became somehow less shitty for browsing the web. So now everyone without a laptop/desktop could use it. And then it got even worse when browsers got replaced by search-engine-apps. “I thought google was the internet?”
I’m just happy it isn’t IE. And that normos have started to figure out that they can easily look up things they don’t know. But yeah, “nature builds a better fool”.
At least IE is dead. And edge isn’t really that bad. It’s actually very usable as a 2nd or 3rd browser.
That’s because Edge is just modded Chrome.
Kill them 😡
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!
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?
Have been long before LLMs to be fair. It’s just that we are taking on speed going down that spiral.
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.
Breathtakingly fucked.
Is it really that much different from the types of people who would believe the first (often bias-confirming) answer they found on Google?
Dead Internet theory is becoming more and more plausible by the day.
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.
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.
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?
Me when podcasters I like start talking about a subject I’m very informed in
At least it beats googles results nowadays. At least in productivity. Instead of trying to figure out which results were vaguely congruent with my search terms and not just SEO-shit, I get shitty results instantly. And with the confidence of absolute certainty that 2 prime dunning-kruger-examples would show.
Clear winner 😁
ChatGPT to Google/Wiki isn’t a bad workflow for factual questions.
Nono, I didn’t want to condemn LLMs. They do have their areas where they really shine. As long as you don’t mindlessly just accept everything as fact. I use them all to a good amount on a regular basis.
And here’s my geriatric ass still saying: “look it up on a search engine”
“the answer’s on the information superhighway!”
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]*
archive.is is your friend.
Archive.org could actually build a genuinely useful fully self contained search engine using the real pages and media they have.
Just go to your local library and look for books on the subject. 🤷♂️
I like to start asking around until someone knows about it and then interview them.
