• randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    The thing LLMs can effectively replace is Google search (and other search engines). Microsoft is shoving copilot down your throat because shoving Bing up your ass was harder when it was already full of other shit.

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      9 months ago

      The thing LLMs can effectively replace is Google search (and other search engines).

      This statement is true on zero known planets.

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          9 months ago

          who in the fuck do you think you’re fooling. all of us have used LLMs for search, not by choice. it’s a garbage technology for that use case (and every other use case) and it didn’t take enshittification for it to get there — it is the enshittification.

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        9 months ago

        I hear the youths are using ChatGPT like we used Google when we were their age, but they must be way better than I am, because when I ask it things I don’t already know, sometimes it gives me truth and sometimes lies.

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        9 months ago

        Well if you’ve used something like sesame on your phone: https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo

        Imagine that but with the ability to create videos and diagrams, and it creates them as a response to followup questions about the information provided. That may not replace search but its definitely replacing teachers, and a lot of what people are searching for, it will be the closest thing to a mind meld we have for sharing information.

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          9 months ago

          it will be the closest thing to a mind meld we have for sharing information.

          Sorry, the only people who get to talk about mind melds are the authors of Kirk/Spock erotica. I don’t make the rules.

          … Wait, I’m a mod. I do make the rules!

    • self@awful.systems
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      9 months ago

      we’ve all seen how well LLMs replace Google search and the product’s fucking unusable