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GenAI is great, trust me bro (eviltoast.org)
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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

While I've found uses for local LLMs (ie I host) and even the bigger chat bots:

I feel the gen "AI" everywhere is just an excuse to collect data since they always use the online models.. And if you are either not paying or paying api rates (per token.. Or usually million token rate) it's basically being provided significantly below cost.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah I use chatgpt and Gemini for targeted tasks, data collection and organizing for blog posts and work proposals (yes I verify the data, I know about A.I. hallucinations), and how to's for tasks I don't do often or have never done.

    Just yesterday I told it "I just bought the PC (linked to product page) I want to install Linux Mint but first I want to disable secure boot, provide a step by step guide to accomplish this" and after about a minute it spit out and detailed guide referencing the manufacturer's website, their forum, and a third party guide. It even pulled tips and tricks from the forum with things like "tip: users report if you see this screen do this to correct it (link to forum thread)"

    I'm not giving these access to my email or calendar or anything like that, once I can have a locally hosted LLM that can access that stuff then sure, as long as I can control my data. Until then I just use commercial LLMs as tools that I don't fully trust.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    AI is a tool. Or more exactly, AI is an accelerant. There are things you could have done yourself, but the AI can do it in seconds and now you just have to verify it and modify it. When used to create things within your skill set, more power to ya. Companies are shoving it into their products with no understanding of this.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Exactly, I use AI to save time, and find data I most likely wouldn't have found myself. It's a tool, not a replacement.

    I think the biggest problem is AI has been portrayed in film and TV as this all powerful computer that can do everything, and that's what everyone thinks they have now. If we compare AI to the growth of the Internet, we're still in the ARPANET phase, there's still a looong way to go.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    are you even saving time, or productivity if you have double-triple check what the LLM even spit out.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    When I asit for data it's generally data that would take hours to find, ready through, accept or reject, then take notes and summarize. When I tell an AI to do it, it takes a minute or two for all the data collection and summarization. Then all I have to do is click the link provided with each piece of data and verify it, which only takes a few minutes generally.

    So yes, AI saves me hours of researching and summarizing even with checking the source data.

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