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What AI chatbot do you use and why? And some other AI questions (linux.community)
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I started using chatbots yesterday and it surprised me how complete and articulate answers are. Main topics would be apparel, sewing, cooking, finance, ETFs, taxes, house maintenance, retirement.

Do you consider AI good enough to substitute human interaction? Because I remember a south park episode where randy marsh ignores his wife to interact exclusively with a bot. A parody of course but we have already plenty of AI porn and AI short stories for gullible people… and it works because they don’t stop watching (and sometimes believe it to be real).

I was always kind of an anti AI guy due to privacy, to avoid LLMs monetizing my questions and because I didn't want to be a moron who has nothing better to do than to watch AI slop, but this is a tool so pervasive and practical I’m only isolating myself if I opt out of it. Thoughts?

Are there any questions you won’t ask a bot so the company behind it doesn’t monetize your input?

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[–] 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I use Claude, I find it best for technical tasks and I ditched ChatGPT when they started bending over for Trump.

I like the idea of creating software and things in general, but I’ve never really been interested in programming. Having a bit that can do the boring part for me has made lots of stupid little projects possible where they wouldn’t have been before. I also use it to research for me on random boring topics which might otherwise have taken me at least an hour. I know people talk about protecting all these sites that require humans to visit but then I remember how many times I’ve tried to look up a recipe and instead got somebodies life story. Or times when over tried to look up a command and had to scroll past ten paragraphs of filler crap before I get to the answer.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    This entire disaster of a comment exemplifies why people hate AI.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago

    What's so terrible about the comment? It sounds like they're using an LLM to help make a bunch of things a little easier for them to deal with.

    I use GPT all the time for doing complex searches that traditional search engines can't handle. I ask for citations so I can verify the information, and it's saved me a tonne of trouble.

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