I used to unironically be low-key proud of my googling skills. Before google got so crummy, at least.

I thing that's wrong

Yep.

I saw a vid not long ago going over some of the drama involved in that, a few specific people.

We've gone past no self awareness into levels of negative self awareness that... are basically just actually breaking the fabric of semantic reality.

... Its another good day to be an absurdist.

"The only moral plagiarism is my plagiarism."

It's slop all the way down!

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My thoughts exactly, but the past few years have* really lowered my expectations of other humans

This reads like NFT bros.

Came to post exactly this.

I have had in person conversations with multiple people who swear they have fixed the AI hallucination problem the same way. "I always include the words 'make sure all of the response is correct and factual without hallucinating'"

These people think they are geniuses thanks to just telling the AI not to mess up.

Thanks to being in person with a rather significant running context, I know they are being dead serious, and no one will dissuade them from thinking their "one weird trick" works.

All the funnier when, inevitably, they get screwed up response one day and feel all betrayed because they explicitly told it not to screw up...

But yes, people take "prompt engineering" very seriously. I have seen people proudly display their massively verbose prompt that often looked like way more work than to just do the things themselves without LLM. They really think it's a very sophisticated and hard to acquire skill...

Reminds me of the very early days of the web, where you had people with the title "webmaster". When you looked deeper into the supposed skillset, it was people that knew a bare minimum of HTML and the ability to manage a tree of files?

I'll never forget being at an ATM and overhearing a conversation between two women in their 30s behind me - the one woman tells the other - "I've been thinking about what I want to do and I think I want to be a webmaster". It just sounded like a very casual choice and one about making money, and not much deeper than that.

This was in 1999 or so. I thought - man, this industry is so fucked right now - we have hiring managers, recruiters, etc...that have almost no idea of the difference in skillsets between what I do (programming, architecture, networking, database, and then trying to QA all of that and keep it running in production, etc.) and people calling themselves "webmasters".

Sure enough, not long after, the dotcom bubble popped. It was painful for everyone (even people that kept their distance from the dotcom thing to an extent) without question, whether you had skills or no. But I don't think roles like "webmaster" did very well...

!leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world maybe? Not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for...

!selfawarewolves@lemmy.world seems absolutely tiny, but it's there.

Based on my own in person experience with some LLM fanatics, I think this is quite probable. I've heard very sincere feedback from people that think they are amazing because they have "advanced prompt engineering" skills. They think "prompt engineer" will be a very selective job in and of itself and think they have an edge. They think they will be able to work on any field because the LLM will take care of domain specific stuff and their "rare mastery" of prompts will be the hot skill.

Everything lately seems like satire, but sadly it's the world we live in.

it's twitter, which encourage engagements. so can be assumed as rage bait

Do not underestimate the power of stupid.

Especially in this era of atrophying cognition by prompting LLMs to do the thinking.

Could be many things, all disingenuous. Rage bait perhaps, or even a feeble attempt at buzz marketing their shit

oh no.

rtfm being replaced by wyop.

::: spoiler wyop

write your own prompt

Use of AI robs you of the opportunity to learn/practice/hone your skills in a certain area. why would someone use ai for any reason other than to get out of having to learn something?

This is not really a good argument against AI. Almost everything ever invented was invented to avoid doing something else that would take more time.

Why would anyone use animation software other than to avoid learning to draw your frames in sequence?

Why would anyone use a loom other than to avoid having to learn how to weave?

Why would anyone read a book other than to avoid learning by experience and experimentation?

LLMs are a pretty good tool to summarize any subject, or present it with different words or in a different approach... They are a statistical word predictor tool after all.

So yeah, if you understand that LLMs:

• don't possess intelligence;
• they are just reproducing patterns from the training material used;
• it's impossible for them to contain ALL "knowledge" from the training material;
• the "context" provided directly influences the response

Then, I'd say that LLMs can be used as a very good facilitator to learn about almost any subject that has already been documented in any word format in almost any language.

It's worse than your typical creative claim on copyright of something like a poem - because prompts are by definition functional more than creative, and typically contain too few purely expressive elements to meet creative height. They managed to put prompts in a worse position than boilerplate code in terms of protection, lol