Mastodawn

I like LLMs

I like LLMs - Lemmy

I use it all the time. It is a good partner to challenge me, when I am looking for other points of view. “I believe x due to y. Challenge my point of view” It helps me explore a topic fast, so that I know the lingo to search for it myself. I use it for making low stakes decisions where it often succeeds, such as shopping and research for shopping. I validate the results every time. Is it net negative for society, not sure, maybe? Will it go away, no. So we should embrace it, but not the big tech AI, but smaller LLMs.

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marighost

Upvoted due to a real unpopular opinion.

I think LLMs have their place, especially in data collation or analytics. But by far the loudest (and most dangerous) use of LLMs is the offloading of critical thinking. When I hear about how many people are asking Grok about some tweet or people starting a romantic endeavor with ShitGPT, or chuds generating revenge deepfake porn, all I can think about it the strain on our resources.

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JohnnyEnzyme 2d ago

ShitGPT

What’s your reason for slamming that one in particular? Over here, It’s been enormously useful to me for a range of subjects. That said, I tend to use it for elaborate search-engine queries, always trying to avoid any chance of hallucinations, etc.