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Are there any genuine benefits to AI? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by fiddlestix@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something here? Are there any genuine benefits?

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[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago (9 children)

The fruit of those brainstorming sessions are like Homer Simpson designing a new car.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 2 points 9 months ago (8 children)

You're confusing brainstorming with content generation. LLMs are great for brainstorming: they can quickly churn out dozens of ideas for my D&D campaign, which I then look through, discard the garbage, keep the good bits of, and riff off of before incorporating into my campaign. If I just used everything it suggested blindly, yeah, nightmare fuel. For brainstorming though, it's fantastic.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I would retort that the exact opposite is true, that content generation is the only thing LLMs are good at because they often forget the context of their previous statements.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think we're saying the same thing there: LLMs are great at spewing out a ton of content, which makes them a great tool for brainstorming. The content they create is not necessarily trustworthy or even good, but it can be great fuel for the creative process.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My stance is that spewing out a ton of flawed unrelated content is not conducive to creative good content, and therefor LLM is not useful for writing. That hasn't changed.

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