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Remember When Bosses Were Forcing Their Workers to Use AI? They’re Now Realizing They Made a Huge Mistake: "AI is changing not only how we work, but also how we judge the people we work with." (futurism.com)
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[–] 6 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

I'm a university instructor and I definitely use AI to help learn material. But I write all the student-facing material by hand. And I use LLMs to check my work for errors, directing it to never offer a rewrite.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    If I found out I'm paying thousands of dollars in tuition just for my instructors to be learning the very subject matter they're teaching from LLMs I would be so upset that I might drop out and seek refunds.

    I expect better from a university instructor.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Well, it's hardly the only place I learn things. But if you can verify a fact that an LLM gives you, it's still a fact.

    Another fact: there's a pile of human shit out there, too. So you get the truth by hook or by crook.

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  • [–] 1 point 58 minutes ago

    if I can verify a fact an LLM gave me I'm still:

    1. wasting my time needing to verify something from an inherently and unfixably untrustworthy source
    2. contributing to and encouraging the environmental destruction that LLMs cause
    3. reinforcing to big tech that LLMs are worthwhile
    4. increasing my mental dependence on LLMs

    Sure, humans still lie and manipulate and fuck up all the time. That doesn't excuse or explain the many flaws of LLMs.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    Noooooooo. Current models are completely incapable of fact checking, despite any claims they may make. They get extremely basic shit wrong. For example, one popular model was recently caught telling people the wrong day for Election Day. Which is just so incredibly basic but they can’t manage it.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 hours ago

    Current models are completely incapable of fact checking, despite any claims they may make.

    This is demonstrably false. Ask it to find the bugs in a chunk of code, for example. You can try that right now.

    You always have to back up what it says with an authoritative source, but that's not particularly tough to do once you have a candidate answer. And if it's code, you compile it.

    It's arguably far easier than trying to sift through the mountains of SEO shit yourself.

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