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[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

The thing LLMs can effectively replace is Google search (and other search engines).

This statement is true on zero known planets.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's better than google for a lot of searches. That is until whatever AI platform you are using enshitifies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

who in the fuck do you think you’re fooling. all of us have used LLMs for search, not by choice. it’s a garbage technology for that use case (and every other use case) and it didn’t take enshittification for it to get there — it is the enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Well if you've used something like sesame on your phone: https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo

Imagine that but with the ability to create videos and diagrams, and it creates them as a response to followup questions about the information provided. That may not replace search but its definitely replacing teachers, and a lot of what people are searching for, it will be the closest thing to a mind meld we have for sharing information.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

it will be the closest thing to a mind meld we have for sharing information.

Sorry, the only people who get to talk about mind melds are the authors of Kirk/Spock erotica. I don't make the rules.

... Wait, I'm a mod. I do make the rules!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

to quote the new pope: holy christ shut the fuck up

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I hear the youths are using ChatGPT like we used Google when we were their age, but they must be way better than I am, because when I ask it things I don't already know, sometimes it gives me truth and sometimes lies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

The scary part is people aren't caring about the difference.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

It is used in combination with Google. You ask ChatGPT what to Google for.