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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I don’t really see the appeal of using AI if it’s going to take more time and effort to fact check the responses it gives me because it has a massively high failure rate.

You just run the output back through and ask it to fact check for you. Problem solved!

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

My company paid for some people to go to one of these "accelerate your company with AI" seminars - the recommendation that the "AI Expert" gave was to ask the LLM to include a percentage of how confident it was in its answers. I'm technical enough to understand that that isn't how LLMs work, but it was pretty scary how people thought that was a reasonable, sensible idea.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

To be fair, I think it's really easy to fall into that sort of viewpoint. The way most people interact with them is inherently anthropomorphic, and I think that plus the fact that AI as a concept is almost as memed as flying cars in various media makes it really hard not to end up relating that way.

I have a technical background and understand LLMs enough to know that's bad, but I also used it like LCARS when it was new and thought it was effing amazing for a time. It's super easy to fall under that spell, IMO.

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Totally - "scary" as in "this is going to cause so many issues and get people into real trouble" more than "man people are stupid"

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