Let's take a moment to appreciate all the advice that u/[deleted] has given us throughout the years.
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I did find it funny one time when I got a solution for a problem from ai at work, and then later found the almost word for word solution in stack overflow. Like this is just a search engine but with higher sea level rise and rainforest clearcutting when you use it!
Google also making search worse so people will use their slop machine instead
It is like a search engine that will randomly spit out something correct (a human's work), wrong, or sadly wrong.
With every response to a prompt you get to figure out the relative level of bullshit or propaganda.
It's a search engine that you already have to know the answer to use.
Often it is exactly the same as the top stack overflow answer. Sometimes it throws in some extra shit to make it incorrect though, so you have to scroll down and click on the SO link, which is what you would have done before all of this nonsense anyway.
Less ads though.
Good news, so does ChatGPT lol
Always ask for source
In another 12 years, those will all be ChatGPT replies too!
Do you mean “in another 0 years” because reddit is at least 50% bots, possibly as high as 70% depending on the study
Reddit's /r/changemyview was revealed to be a social experiment carried out by some university, and LLMs/bots were 99% more effective than human speakers in persuading others that their viewpoints were right.
Take that information and roll with it into Edward Bernays methodology of psychology-based advertising and you'll see what Modern Reddit (RIP Schwartz) actually is.
but the bots were obvious until they started using LLMs, which was probably around 2022 that it became common...
Lemmy, but yeah, same idea
Idk I was on reddit 11 years ago and I wouldn't trust any shit I posted back then...
Um, LLMs were trained on that 11 year old post tho
Yeah, but they were also trained on tons of other incorrect, useless bullshit, so
The point I'm making is that reddit is also shit.
The internet has always been a cesspool of uselessness with a few gold nuggets to find. Some of the best information out there was in those old posts, from Usenet to Reddit, buried in shit.
When search engines actually indexed and crawled without the advertising algorithms you could find stuff. But for the past 6 years reddit has been shit, and search has been shittier longer. Now when you visit reddit you're helping to fund fascists.
So the hallucinating LLMs were trained on garbage, so it's shit on top of shit.
Quite sad
If the point of this is that both are equally trustworthy then I agree.
Except Reddit IS all AI posts now. Dead internet theory realtiy.
that's why "from 11 years ago"
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