This is your reminder that LLMs are associative models. They produce things that look like other things. If you ask a question, it will produce something that looks like the right answer. It might even BE the right answer, but LLMs care only about looks, not facts.

The stupid and the lazy.

A lot of people really hate uncertainty and just want an answer. They do not care much if the answer is right or not. Being certain is more important than being correct.

I don't see the point either if you're just going to copy verbatim. OP could always just ask AI themselves if that's what they wanted.

Oh look, it's the LLMentalist o'clock!

This is a reality as most people will abandon those skills, and many more will never learn them to begin with. I'm actually very worried about children who will grow up learning to communicate with AI and being dependent on it to effectively communicate with people and navigate the world, potentially needing AI as a communication assistant/translator.

AI is patient, always available, predicts desires and effectively assumes intent. If I type a sentence with spelling mistakes, chatgpt knows what I meant 99% of the time. This will mean children don't need to spell or structure sentences correctly to effectively communicate with AI, which means they don't need to think in a way other human being can understand, as long as an AI does. The more time kids spend with AI, the less developed their communication skills will be with people. GenZ and GenA already exhibit these issues without AI. Most people go experience this communicating across generations, as language and culture context changes. This will emphasize those differences to a problematic degree.

Kids will learn to communicate will people and with AI, but those two styles with be radically different. AI communication will be lazy, saying only enough for AI to understand. With communication history, which is inevitable tbh, and AI improving every day, it can develop a unique communication style for each child, what's amounts to a personal language only the child and AI can understand. AI may learn to understand a child better than their parents do and make the child dependent on AI to effectively communicate, creating a corporate filter of communication between human being. The implications of this kind of dependency are terrifying. Your own kid talks to you through an AI translator, their teachers, friends, all their relationships could be impacted.

I have absolutely zero beleif that the private interests of these technology owners will benefit anyone other than themselves and at the expense of human freedom.

I know someone who very likely had ChatGPT write an apology for them once. Blew my mind.

Hmm, I find chatGPT is pretty decent at very basic techsupport asked with the correct jargon. Like "How do I add a custom string to cell formatting in excel".

It absolutely sucks for anything specific, or asked with the wrong jargon.

I understand LLMs well enough that I really don't want to use them because they are inherently incapable of judging the validity of information they are passing along.

Sometimes it's wrong. Sometimes it's right. But they don't tell you when they're wrong, and to find out if they were wrong, you now have to do the research you were trying to avoid in the first place.

I tried programming with it once, because a friend insisted it was good. But it wasn't, and it was extremly confidend, while being exceptionally wrong.

Yeah thats called ignorance and we shouldn't be celebrating it.

They absolutely do. Some people basically use it instead of Google or whatever. Shopping lists, vacation planning, gift lists, cooking recipes, just about everything.

It's great at it, because it'll bother trawling webpages for all that stuff that you can't be bothered to spend hours doing. The internet is really soo shitified that it's easier to use a computer to do this.

I hate that it is so. It's a complete waste of ressources, but I understand it.

It's a waste of your resources to close popups, set cookie preferences and read five full screens about grandma's farm before getting to the point: "Preheat the oven to 200°c and heat the pizza for 15 minutes.", when ChatGPT could've presented it right away without any ads.

I have encountered some people who use it as a substitute for thinking. To the extent that it's rather unnerving.

There's a difference between passively using something and actively using something.

I use electricity every day, but I have no idea how it's generated. I (assume I) use RSA256, but if you ask me to explain block cypher encryption to you I'd just go "well you take a number and another number and....... hope they have sex to produce a bigger number?"

I use a lot of stuff without having to know how it works and having to choose to use it.

Using it for porn sounds funny to me given the whole concept of "rule 34" being pretty ubiquitous. If it exists, there's porn of it! Like even from a completely pragmatic prespective, it sounds like generating pictures of cats. Surely there is a never ending ocean of cat pictures which you can search and refine, do you really need to bring a hallucination machine into the mix? Maybe your friend has an extremely specific fetish list that nothing else will scratch? That's all I can think of.

Yeah, that's just judgemental and presumptive.

I have quite a lot of shit in my life, and I have actively decided to pay no attention to AI. Not because "I can't keep up with it" but because after some research into it I decided "it was bullshit and nonsense and not something I need to know about"

I used to know a guy like that. He would say stuff like "I didn't even know how to use a computer mouse!" It definitely sounded like he was bragging. Such a weird thing to be proud of.