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minus-squaredill@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·14 days agoTinfoil hat me goes straight to: make the population dumber and they’re easier to manipulate. It’s insane how people take LLM output as gospel. It’s a TOOL just like every other piece of technology.
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·14 days agoI mostly use it for wordy things like filing out review forms HR make us do and writing templates for messages to customers
minus-squaredill@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·14 days agoExactly. It’s great for that, as long as you know what you want it to say and can verify it. The issue is people who don’t critically think about the data they get from it, who I assume are the same type to forward Facebook memes as fact. It’s a larger problem, where convenience takes priority over actually learning and understanding something yourself.
Tinfoil hat me goes straight to: make the population dumber and they’re easier to manipulate.
It’s insane how people take LLM output as gospel. It’s a TOOL just like every other piece of technology.
I mostly use it for wordy things like filing out review forms HR make us do and writing templates for messages to customers
Exactly. It’s great for that, as long as you know what you want it to say and can verify it.
The issue is people who don’t critically think about the data they get from it, who I assume are the same type to forward Facebook memes as fact.
It’s a larger problem, where convenience takes priority over actually learning and understanding something yourself.