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How does it make you feel when people use LLMs like search engines and then hand you extruded text as though it is factual? Have you seen IRL or just on boards? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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Personally seen this behavior a few times in real life, often with worrying implications. Generously I'd like to believe these people use extruded text as a place to start thinking from, but in practice is seems to me that they tend to use extruded text as a thought-terminating behavior.

IRL, I find it kind of insulting, especially if I'm talking to people who should know better or if they hand me extruded stuff instead of work they were supposed to do.

Online it's just sort of harmless reply-guy stuff usually.

Many people simply straight-up believe LLMs to be genie like figures as they are advertised and written about in the "tech" rags. That bums me out sort of in the same way really uncritical religiosity bums me out.

HBU?

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[–] 36 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I respond in ways like we did when Wikipedia was new: “Show me a source.” … “No GPT is not a source. Ask it for its sources. Then send me the link.” … “No, Wikipedia is not a source, find the link used in that statement and send me its link.”

If you make people at least have to acknowledge that sources are a thing you’ll find the issues go away. (Because none of these assholes will talk to you anymore anyway. ;) )

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    GPT will list fake sources. Just in case you aren't aware. Most of these things will.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My municipality used hallucinated references to justify closing down schools.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    For what reason?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It made up some references allegedly saying larger schools were better for learning than smaller schools among other things. But the main reason for restructuring the school structure was to save money.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Tracing and verifying sources is standard academic writing procedure. While you definitely can’t trust anything an LLM spits out, you can use them to track down certain types of sources more quickly than search engines. On the other hand, I feel that’s more of an indictment of the late-stage enshittification of search engines, not some special strength of LLMs. If you have to use one, don’t trust it, demand supporting links and references, and verify absolutely everything.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    indeed they literally cannot cite sources accurately by way of their function 😬

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

    I’ll still ask the person shoving Ai slop in my face for a source or artist link just to shame these pathetic attempts to pass along slop and misinformation.

    Edit for clarity

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