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So maybe you should fight against dick-shoving billionaires, not against useful tools?
AI is not a useful tool, it's a lock-in subscription that chains you to those billionaires. Fighting against AI is fighting against control by billionaires.
How about allowing AI to be rolled out and adopted organically instead of trying to gavage it down everyone's throats?
That's the question to corporations, not to LLMs.
That would be true of any technology. Technology doesn't have agency; my comment is clearly directed at corpos that are pushing it.
If they’re so useful, why are they being forced on everyone, including by making them part of performance reviews?
If they’re useful people will naturally use them.
And people do use them. Naturally.
What about that "forcing" thing you're talking about? Look around. You're being forced with everything by corporations. Why would this new cool technology should be an exception? You're forced to watch sport events, listen to modern music, wear some vogue clothes, kiss your beloved leader's ass, hate those evil Cubans or Ukrainians (depending on who your owner is).
I very often do push back against things that they try to force down everyone's throat.
No, I do none of those things. You just sound like a resentful conformist. Maybe try thinking and doing for yourself, instead of thinking and doing as you’re told.
So cool...
Nobody's fighting against you guys. Why do sloperators have to take everything personally? Smh my head.
What "usefulness" do you get out of them?
They save my time tremendously while searching for something in documentation. Especially if I don't know if it is actually there.
Are you not familiar with "ctrl+f"?
Didn’t know ctrl-f could parse natural language and not only rely on knowing the correct keyword. When did it gain that functionality?
Better question is, when did you lose basic keyword-based searching skills? I know you may want your answers on a platter but realize that there's value in manual searches. Searching for something with LLMs on the page that you're on is questionable on so many levels.
There's really not value in doing something harder, and if it was a one page thing that wouldn't be an issue.
Using their example you could get an LLM to return you the correct page in some documentation, searching through an entire site based only on a concept of what feature set you're looking for. Ctrl-F cannot do that.
It's not harder, though, it's actually quite instant if you know what you're doing. A lot of documentation is literally one single web page, and the majority that is not can be navigated with the regular search and ctrl+F just fine.
There's no substitute to taking 40 minutes to get acquainted with the documentation to know what you need rather than trial & error your way through a problem blindly.
It's unreliable and prone to errors, and I say that after using LLM-based searches for months at work. Too many times it confuses areas, makes stuff up, or cites some irrelevant page just to give any answer at all.
“AI Tools” describes both the product and the people who use them.
I'd that tool didn't come at the destructive costs involved, AI would be a lot more palatable.
YouTube storing shitillions of dickabytes of cat videos "costs" much more while being completely useless. But those are funny cat videos. Hands off of those videos. Yes?
You may think you're being clever, but that is hardly a reasonable comparison while also ignoring the glaring corporate irresponsibility underlying both.
If that's what it takes to stop the excessive destruction caused by unregulated data center construction and operation, yes.
What "yes"?
Do you need to reread my comment instead of reacting to a single word of it?
You need to reread my comment.
I answered you. But you still seem confused. What don't you understand about my reply?
They're ai and their context window ran out of space lol
Lol sure seems like it. I didn't think my reply was that complex.
I don't care what you do but keep your hands off those videos. I need them for things.
They're not useful tools.
You're screaming into the echo chamber, mate. Unless you're so rabidly anti-AI you believe and spread one of a few comforting, imaginary narratives, you'll be dog piled.
I'm staunchly critical of AI, but won't pretend that it only consists of generative AI, that it still operates as poorly as it did years ago, nor that a disturbing percentage of the population either doesn't care about or actually supports that shit, so I get my share of insults. Being pro-AI won't get you much civility so set your expectations low. Unless you're trolling. Then you've nailed it.