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clifmo@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Sunforged@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Search engines did that decades ago. AI presents it’s results as fact without the ability to provide a source, it’s an aggressively unfriendly interface.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s presented as friendly but yeah it’s actually incredibly hostile and predatory

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    • clifmo@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The interface is friendly. Agreed.

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, they provide sources. At least, some of them do. It’s just that the sources don’t always back them up. It’s going to gin up sources whether it’s correct or not, because that’s what it’s programmed to do.

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    • Sunforged@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I haven’t used the latest models, I am really fucking over it, but yeah when I would ask for sources on why the model provided the answer it did every time they would jist hallucinate a web address.

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  • clifmo@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh yea 25 years ago search engines were amazing

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And it only makes sense that they’d get worse over time because technology has gotten worse.

      Errr, wait…

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  • PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not the same. The ability to converse about a topic is pretty dope. Compared to ring to find relevant information about a very unique case for instance.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Then how come none of the AI companies are actually profitable?

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  • clifmo@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So only profitable things have value?

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To capitalists? Yeah

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      • clifmo@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So, I’m a little lost. You think AI isn’t useful because it isn’t generating profits? Or you think it’s not useful because of how it distills information and presents it in a chat interface (which was the only point I made)?

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