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[–] 8 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

they can be extremely useful for that

Using an LLM is exactly the opposite of learning. It's anti-learning. It feels nice because your brain is not engaged, and it gives a lot of text that looks like explanation, so you feel like you've learned something, but you just skimmed some bullshit and that's it. In the end you know less than you knew before you started, but you don't realise that.

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  • [–] 2 points 16 hours ago* (1 child)

    That's not learning, that's just reading LLM generated prose. Not entirely pointless depending on the circumstance, but not what I'm talking about.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago

    That's what people doing. That's the reason they're talking at chatbots, because chatbots mimics speech. They do "chatbot, explain X to me", chatbot generates words that look like a text full of whatever, user skims those words, sometimes doing "I don't understand Y part of it, explain it again but using different words", and go "oh, I understand X now, chatbot called me a good boy in the end, this means I'm an expert on X actually", and go about their days thinking they know shit now, when in reality they did unlearning.
    I'm sure you're different, but if so you're unique. And maybe, just maybe, you also don't realise how not unique you are.
    It's hard to overestimate how effective an llm is at making people believe they weren't lied to

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    Not sure if I buy this argument. Couldn't you say the same thing about using search engines to look up information on a topic? That you just "skimmed through some bullshit"? Not everything you find on the internet is necessarily true and the same applies to AI

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