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[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 145 points 5 months ago (13 children)

It blows my mind that these companies think AI is good as an informative resource. The whole point of generative text AIs is the make things up based on its training data. It doesn't learn, it generates. It's all made up, yet they want to slap it on a search engine like it provides factual information.

[–] hellofriend@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It's like the difference between being given a grocery list from your mum and trying to remember what your mum usually sends you to the store for.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

... Or calling your aunt and having her yell things at you that she thinks might be on your Mum's shopping list.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That could at least be somewhat useful... It's more like grabbing some random stranger and asking what their aunt thinks might be on your mum's shopping list.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 5 months ago

... but only one word at a time. So you end up with:

  • Bread
  • Cheese
  • Cow eggs
  • Chicken milk
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