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[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 73 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

The last 5% aren't a nice bonus. They are everything. A 95% self driving car won't do. Giving me random hallucinations when I try to look up important information won't do either even if it just happens 1 out of 20 times. That one time could really screw me so I can't trust it.

Currently AI companies have no idea how to get there yet they sell the promise of it. Next year, bro. Just one more datacenter, bro.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 56 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

People tell me the hallucinations aren't a big deal because people should fact check everything.

  1. People aren't fact checking
  2. If you have to fact check every single thing you're not saving any time over becoming familiar with whatever the real source of info is
[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Worse, since generating a whole bunch of potentially correct text is basically effortless now, you've got a new batch of idiots just "contributing" to discussions by leaving a regurgitated wall of text they possibly didn't even read themselves.

So not only those are not fact checking, when you point that you didn't ask for a LLM's opinion, they're like "what's the problem? Is any of this wrong?" Because it's entirely your job to check something they copy-pasted in 5 seconds.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

So many posts on on social media are obviously AI generated and it immediately makes me disregard them but I'm worried about later stages when people make an effort to mask it. Prompt it to generate text without giveaways like dashes. Have intentional mistakes or a general lack of proper structure and punctuation in there and it will be incredibly hard to tell.

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