It’s in the same ballpark as “my buddy said this while we were high” or “my uncle posted this on Facebook” or “I saw this YouTube video…”
It turns out people, on average, have horrible information hygiene and little incentive to consider this. ChatGPT just made Facebook Uncle Facts more personalized and accessible, unfortunately.
People on Lemmy also have horrid information hygiene that’s just as bad even though a lot of people here like to pretend that they’re better than everyone.
At least your are sifting through different results and picked something through your own when “you googled”, it actually included a hint of what you were thinking as you click through links looking for what you are trying to find.
If you can’t do proper research and you’d rather handicap your own ability to, that’s on you. There’s a fundamental difference between LLMs feeding people an answer, and a traditional Google search.
One is a definitive “this is the answer” and the other is a list of results YOU are meant to sift through. Not understanding that is on you.
Reading multiple sources will ALWAYS be better than a crap LLM summary.
Eh.
It’s in the same ballpark as “my buddy said this while we were high” or “my uncle posted this on Facebook” or “I saw this YouTube video…”
It turns out people, on average, have horrible information hygiene and little incentive to consider this. ChatGPT just made Facebook Uncle Facts more personalized and accessible, unfortunately.
No, because “my uncle” didn’t post a 6 paragraph essay that no one has ever read, but you are now expected to read.
Your uncle has, if he’s been linking SEO chum. That’s kinda where LLMs got it from.
People on Lemmy also have horrid information hygiene that’s just as bad even though a lot of people here like to pretend that they’re better than everyone.
Agreed, 100%.
What’s worse, few seem to care when a made-up post is pointed out.
“I googled”
Anything that isn’t on the first page of google might as well be lost to time.
At least your are sifting through different results and picked something through your own when “you googled”, it actually included a hint of what you were thinking as you click through links looking for what you are trying to find.
I’m sifting through the results given to me by automat, not that different from AI.
I either ask uncle google’s AI, or I ask sources he used for the same lie.
If you can’t do proper research and you’d rather handicap your own ability to, that’s on you. There’s a fundamental difference between LLMs feeding people an answer, and a traditional Google search.
One is a definitive “this is the answer” and the other is a list of results YOU are meant to sift through. Not understanding that is on you.
Reading multiple sources will ALWAYS be better than a crap LLM summary.
I will quote you when someone claims that asking multiple LLMs is not the solution.
Pfft, okay.