I am a student in CS, and today my uni has completely changed its policy on AI. They used to completely ban it. Now, professors use LLMs to make their course materials, generate illustrations etc. They encourage using LLMs to understand courses, to work on our projects… I have one practical session where they straight up give us the prompts to use if stuck.

Now, I might get hate and I understand it, but they are truly useful. A course that would’ve taken a whole week-end to understand is all wrapped up in a few hours. You can ask very specific and “niche” questions it’ll understand and explain in the words that are most adapted to you.

Yes, I use LLMs. I do not condone generating “art” from it like images, videos or music.
But it’s such a great tool and a teaching mentor. If you don’t use it to do your homework for you but to have a better understanding of topics you’re not familiar with it, I find it valid.

Well I was used to MMOs with different servers and I thought I’d have to create an account for each if I wanted to be with my friends. I didn’t know Mastodon was NOT a mere Twitter alternative, and I wasn’t familiar with the concept of the fediverse.

Oh yeah that’s true, and also that’s why we should move away from lemmy.world. It’s great to welcome newcomers but it shouldn’t be where most users are.

I’m glad no one said spiders, although they are scary they’re the best roommates

Might be a naive question but what prevents instance admins here on Lemmy to also give this information?

I won’t get a boner

Yes my house by me

I don’t think it’s possible, unless he lives on little saint james…

Well, none. He can do whatever he wants.

His government is slightly smarter than him so for now we’re safe, however no one’s going to stop a dictator.