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[–] 152 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (39 children)
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  • Never farts I declare bankruptcy!

Mom's got a point.

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  • [+] -32 points 6 months ago (36 children)

    wait.. never farts?

    do I really have to ask Ai or can you expand on that.

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  • [–] 106 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Do I really have to ask ai and then still go elsewhere to actually verify the information because LLMs are actually just full of shit?

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    If LLMs are full of shit, do they also fart?

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  • [–] [S] 42 points 6 months ago (14 children)

    Sorry, I don't trust language machines to ever know anything. It's not their fault, you just can't expect them to do what they aren't capable of. If you really wanna think AI is useful, recognize the areas where it objectively isn't useful.

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  • [+] -11 points 6 months ago (13 children)

    I really dont get this argument. You can ask it for live link sources to verify whatever info it generates, depending on the topic.

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  • [–] [S] 40 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    In which case it doesn't need to give a summary in the first place. Too often people won't click on those sources over the ai blurb. It's designed to exploit laziness by making being misinformed easy. Seeing people just give AI blurbs without a source as evidence is annoyingly common.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    https://stopcitingai.com/

    😬

    That website was made by someone suffering from some cognitive dissonance. They correctly observe that LLMs "can produce convincing-sounding information, but that information may not be accurate or reliable" and then somehow immediately afterwards conclude that "summarize this for me" is the type of thing which LLMs "might" be "good at".

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I think you are right that the problem is often just lazy people not wanting to understand or use the tool in a way that is beneficial to them. But there are some good use cases for it, when I am coding I will ask questions and my session instructions are to only provide relevant links to source documentation that can be helpful in my problem and also provide tutorial links that could be relevant, never provide code or advice. I would say 7/10 times it gets me to the correct spot in the docs and provides some useful tutorials on the subject. Not perfect but I am not using it and just blindly trusting its advice, just using it to be a slightly faster search engine that gets me to the information I am seeking without me having to dig into the docs or jump from site to site finding the information.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Unfortunately, I find that finding those sources by traditional search gets harder over time. Maybe the internet is now more garbage, maybe the search engines are more garbage, but a couple of times I failed to find a source on my own and used an LLM to find one (it may also fail, of course)

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Too often people don't read past the headline or even have their algorithm trained to consistently give dis/misinformation. I don't see criticism of a tool, but rather how has developed and is used. This applies in so many areas that I think the more effective approach is teaching people how to think more critically and criticizing the companies for not doing their due diligence in promoting that. Otherwise it comes across like being upset people use social media, in which case I think we are far too beyond the Pandoras box being opened to spend time focusing on that aspect. If you have solutions other than telling people not to use it, I'm all ears.

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  • Machine learning is a useful technology that can do amazing things. "AI" is the cultural phenomenon of people thinking we created a magical solution to every problem. Machine learning might be able to sometimes query a search engine better, but LLMs will never know anything about the world because that's not what it was designed for. Machine learning can make workers more productive, but we're nowhere near the point where it can be a laborer itself. People should lean how the technology actually works so they realize that half of the corporate implementations are a bad idea.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Legend has it there are these things called "search engines". People say they are doors to actual human knowledge

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Were. Now they're doors to ai slop and advertisements...

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    We can still restrict the search to dates before 2023, in case we're not looking for more recent information, and be fully ai-free

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The problem for me is the AI curating and interpreting the results for you with every search.

    If you're using a mainstream "AI powered" search engine these days, it will come to a conclusion on its own and then show you only results that corroborate it, rather than the other way around.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 6 months ago

    That was happening before AI, it's just that machine learning was harnessed to make it worse rather than better. Imagine if they used machine learning to combat SEO or recognize that it's not giving you what you want after the first page. Instead it's just a disinformation machine to maximize how easy it is to control the public.

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  • [–] 94 points 6 months ago

    You never have to ask AI. You can always go look it up in Wikipedia, use an encyclopedia, or talk to someone who fights kangaroos professionally.

    In fact, I’d go so far as to say, never use AI for anything ever.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It's an animal. please stop y'all!

    Find a Fursuiter instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    wait, what's a fursuiter? do I have to ask yet another series of if statements to attain contextual awareness for these discussions or, like, what.

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  • [–] 66 points 6 months ago

    This seems like a valid opinion

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  • [–] 48 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    So turns out Mom is a furry.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago

    Has she seen Tank Girl, I wonder?

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Ripped Roger, casually crushing a metal bucket:

    His taller son Monty:

    https://www.muscleandfitness.com/athletes-celebrities/news/photos-these-jacked-kangaroos-are-more-ripped-you/

    Yeah, kangaroos can absolutely be jacked, and they are notorious for kickboxing the fuck out of anything that annoys them.

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

    For an animal who's known for the significant use of it's legs, why do kangaroos look like they always skip leg day

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Their hips don't lie.

    It's all in the way you move.

    ... in this case, Roos are differently anatomically configured:

    Yeah, the entirety of their hindquarters is essentially the ass / thigh muscles of a human, it is just oriented in a way that its not as visible/obvious to a human, looking to find human anatomy.

    When you kick or hop, that doesn't use many muscles in your lower leg/ankle, at least in terms of where the raw force comes from, it comes from your upper legs, ass, thighs, core.

    Maybe think of Chun Li, lol.

    Kangaroos are well configured to be stable on their ... feet? ... with a different skeletal set up, so they really only need some tendons and less massive muscles in the lower legs.

    They also have muscular and massive enough tails that they could concievably basically thwack you in the head and probably knock you out or topple you over, though I don't have any idea if they actually do that or not.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    they're basically a pair of pogo sticks with a kickstand.
    Though interestingly we're such efficient runners for exactly the same reason: Our legs also rely on springy tendons. Proper running form is to not put much force on the heel, so the arch of the foot acts like a spring alongside the achilles tendon and some other bits.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I think there's a furry or a fursona hidden in everyone. It just takes some digging.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It would be funnier if she started saying something in the lines of furries shouldn't exist or that's something really bad, and it ended with "mom, I have news for you"

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    *super joeyed

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Sounds like mama might be an Omega Roo-kin. (j/k)

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Like mother like pup

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Jumpin Jesus!

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Lemme see that pouch gurl.

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