Now a days people refer to AI instantly for an answer. Maybe it’s a problem they could have solved within 10min in their head or a question they could have done an internet search on and read a few forums to figure out. However, now people go straight to AI which is known to give many many wrong answers.
I know a couple people that fit this bill and now I almost completely disregard what they say. We’ll even be talking face to face and they’ll ask AI something from our conversation in real time.
Yes. Husbands brother is in education, literal librarian/research background and has a chatgpt subscription and won’t stfu about it. Can’t stand it. Use your brain, fuck AI.
Sounds quite uneducated honestly.
Boss brought in a guy from some neighboring company doing smart screens or something, hyped how innovative they were. So we did an informal chat over lunch where I got to explain our domain and approach. Asked him his thoughts and he said I should ask AI. Like why am I even talking to the guy.
Yes. It’s a clear sign that someone is… well, slow.
The thing is the people I thought about when writing this aren’t slow or dumb. However, for some reason they decided to jump on the bandwagon of new technology and let the convenience win
For a couple years, the ChatBOT reliance was isolated to people I didn’t trust for answers in the first place. But now I see it creeping into the circles I thought would never trust it. I just hope they’re vetting anything beyond trivial information (but I mean, why blindly trust trivial information from a chatbot in the first place? You wanted the correct answer, didn’t you?)
It’s not like trusting Wikipedia. It’s not like trusting an encyclopedia. It’s not like trusting a textbook. All of those take a plethora of sources to write their articles, cite their sources, then publish a single, public article that anyone can review. ChatBOTs take unspecified sources, summarizes them, and provides you a private response that undergoes no review. The only way to confirm accuracy is to already know the facts. If you did, you probably wouldn’t be asking.
On the other side of things, I need to evaluate an AI debugging tool and I feel like a tool any time I need to ask a colleague if what it just said makes any sense when I don’t know an area that well that they are better with. I don’t get how people can cite LLM output without being embarrassed about it, mortified even.
Seems like an evolution of people having opinions on stuff they hardly know anything about. Like headline reading or politics of a country they don’t reside in
I do the same. The worst perpetrators I personally know are the management in the company I work for. My boss knows nothing about the field he is managing and uses ChatGPT all the time. Before I knew this, I thought he was technically ignorant but a fairly intelligent person. Now I can see ChatGPT’s influence in every single email he sends out, and every half baked idea he has. He’s influenced at least 3 other people in management to do the same thing. It’s all so generic and infuriating when I have to interact with them through the written word.
Unfortunately I can’t totally ignore them, and I’ve had to shoot down more stupid ideas in the past year than any other time in my life…
Yes. I have a family member who has to ask Claude everything, and he gets back these self-affirming answers that further cement his already-held opinions.
Its existence depends on you liking it, and it is programmed to suck up to you
I’ve heard of the sycophatic behavior but never heard from someone specifically from an experience themselves. That’s crazy to hear
I have instructed mine to be dismissive, insulting, and question everything I say.
It works pretty well for getting answers.
I hate what AI is doing to society, the people who own it and are weaponizing it, but I think it’s silly to claim it is useless.
It’s great for getting quick answers that would take twenty minutes to google.
You just have to be not a fucking dumbass and not believe what it says outright and also know within which categories it can be trusted and which not.
It’s ok to be politically opposed to AI and also acknowledge its practical uses.
I’ve had some bad experiences using it for quick answers. I tried it to summarize studies for an open book exam, and it gave me some blatantly wrong answers, as well as some answers that would change based on how I posed the question. I’m not saying it’s entirely useless, but you have to check the source on everything it tells you, at which point you end up doing the reading yourself anyway.
That has been my experience too
Genuinely, what you get from AI is what you put in. If you’re a dumb asshole, you will get dumb asshole shit. If you’re not, it’s a serious boon.
Let’s separate the use of the tool from the people who deploy it.
AI is fucking evil, because of the implementation, not because of what it is.
This was always inevitable.
Capitalism is the monster.
Ok. Yeah me too.
I studied psychology and philosophy and I know perfectly well when I’m being bullshitted.
It’s havoc that ordinary people use AI as a surrogate for free thought, but stop saying it’s useless.
The issue is who controls the AI, and how much of the dwindling Earth resources we have left it consumes.
But AI in itself has plenty of great uses.
That’s all I have to say.
I was having an existential crisis about climate change, talking to a woman about it, and she used AI to summarize why I shouldn’t be so worried.
It, uh, didn’t help.
Those situations make me think, am I talking to you or someone else because I asked you for an opinion, not an AI…
I do because those people are fascists or catering to them. AI in its present form is unethical by its nature. Imprison the thieving billionaire surveillance cartel and more options open up.
Depends on how you use it. I respect people who generally try to improve their knowledge before just talking shit. Most important think is to process and criticize the info you are searching and not spewing it out like a parrot.
How many times until you disregard them?. Is it like if you see someone using it one time or is it after the tenth time? What’s the cutoff or frequency compared to a standard search? Is it if 50%+ of their searches are through AI or is it like 5%+?
If you actively use AI once I no longer respect your opinion.
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Seems a tad extreme. So like If a medical professional actively uses alpha fold to develop a treatment you no longer respect their opinion?
So are you paid by the comment or what?
Wait, they’re not paying you?
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That’s something I’m in the process of figuring out. My Spidey senses are on high alert for if what these people say sound like it could be from AI or their own brain functioning. It’s sad that I have to put effort into discerning a difference. Some of these people use AI more than the others. I know one really does seem to rely on Perplexity quite a bit
How do you feel like a Wikipedia level of usage? That is it pulls links to actual research and studies that are then verified? Of course not all research is created equally.
That goes into the topic if how credible any given study is and would need to be looked into first hand regardless of finding it on Wikipedia or through AI. Pretty much everything and everyone’s opinion has a bias, more so now a days with politics putting a spin into everything and LLMs are also created with biases. I don’t trust AI to give a credible answer, it consistently gives incorrect answers, I don’t have much reason to give people credibly if they constantly spout what an AI told them
You kinda totally avoided actually answering the question. Like you said a lot about aspects of the question without actually answering it.
disregard? mostly. they can be somewhat entertaining once in a while long as theyre not in charge of anything
True that
No, it’s the same as searching the web or your local library. Perfect information simply doesn’t exist at scale so one must know how to verify any source and use basic baysian thought.
The article in your library/wikipedia/forum takes 10 contributors and publishes a single, public article for which all can see it. Chatbots take 10 contributions and summarizes them into a single, private article that undergoes no review whatsoever. If you don’t already know the answer, you have no inclination as to what’s true. It’s nowhere near the same.
Nope, statistically information was just unreliable. And before internet is even worse. Doomers just don’t want to believe we’re actually not regressing but I get it - the real answer is just too boring.
It’s consistently wrong with basic searches for me in the Google AI overview, like who played a certain role in a show, or voiced a character. I don’t trust ai to be accurate even in the slightest.
Two completely different answers with back to back searches.
Just a quick example of how confidently incorrect it is. Fuck AI
As someone who did enough SEO work for a lifetime the pre-ai internet was likely even less reliable. People have rose tinted glasses on.
But we didn’t just blindly trust it. People trusting AI answers way too much.
Yes we did.
Yes. It’s getting weird. Had a coworker ask me a question if something was possible. I said yes. He said: no, ai said it wasn’t. I didn’t understand why he asked me if he knew the answer already lol. They just accept ai as truth, can’t take those people seriously.
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At this point, why even ask people you pay anything?
He asked you for that exact reason… but then you gave him an answer he didn’t want. He may or may not have known what answer he wanted but as soon as you gave it he knew he wanted it to be something else. The quickest way to get a second opinion, was to ask the LLM.
If it had hallucinated the answer he wanted, he would have demanded going that route, because the AI said so, even if it was literally impossible.
And in his mind, this reinforced the AI as being correct, so he’s will be more likely to blindly accept it’s responses in the future.
Confirmation bias is one hell of a drug and AI is our supplier. It’ll be our downfall
I know a guy who does that. He used to be smart, but it feels like those antivax who refer to other people instead of using their brain. When he begins to talk about AI results, I zone out, and I’m starting to disregard everything he says, AI or not.
friend of me also: So i asked the ai and it said… yeah whatever dude i don’t care
even worst when a tech guy, i know relies on it all the time.
