Comment on Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
AI can be useful without being right about everything. But the user has to know enough to push back or just write it themselves when necessary. And in my experience the same is true when pairing with another developer, too.
It’s a tool, not a solution. Though it’s valid to say the folks touting its miracle capabilities are full of shit. It is imperfect, but it’s not worthless. It’s not a con man, it’s just confidently wrong. I’ve worked with/for a lot of people like that.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
When it’s trying to convince you that it’s right using tricks of confidence, I’d say it’s behaving like a con man. At least it’s indistinguishable from the behavior of a con man.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s too dumb to try and trick you. It’s responding to being called out the way people tend to because that’s what it’s emulating. And yeah, that’s not great.
All I can say is AI has wasted my time and saved me time. And in my case, more of the latter than the former.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Yeah, I think we agree on that point. I didn’t mean to make it sound like it’s intentionally trying to trick you.