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collapse_already@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoI don’t want to ask ai. Google automatically gives me ai search results that are piss poor. Those useless results still use energy to generate.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And these results are taken at face value by a shocking number of people. I’ve gotten into niche academic arguments where someone just copy and pasted the AIs completed hallucinated response as “evidence.”
I experimented with using AI to generate basic quizzes for students on concepts like atomic theory or conservation of energy, but maybe 2/20 questions it came up with were any form of accurate/useful. Even when it’s not making shit up entirely, the information is so shallow as to be useless.