Comment on Finally escaping Windows, ironically thanks to AI
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I was never really against AI, and used the free things for most of the time. I moved to paying for AI once I started homelabbing, I have saved so much money with being able to move my things to my LAN. If I could afford a computer with a strong enough GPU it would be great.
I was able to setup a firewall running OpenWRT that I had tried searching the internet for help but it was always way over my head.
phanto@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
So, word of caution. Be careful. I tried using Copilot to open a connection for a single port between two LANs on my network in pfsense, as I didn’t know pfsense. It happily recommended opening 0.0.0.0/0 on the first LAN’s gateway address. It worked!.. By opening everything on the whole network up to anything at all. The problem with AI: you can only use it if you already know enough to catch its horrible screw ups.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
The problem with AI is that it doesn’t push back. It is fantastic at manipulating your emotions.
I noticed that there are sometimes huge differences between models and providers. ChatGPT, which most people use, is a useless sycophant because it’s made to value user satisfaction higher than factual correctness (so it makes shit up und basically never pushes back if you challenge it). When using Mistral AI I had the AI tell me outright that I’m wrong (though it still generated very friendly text to do so, and it only properly does it when in “thinking” mode). No clue how Anthropic or Google do in this regard, just that ChatGPT is especially awful. In the end all models are risky.
@possiblylinux127 @phanto bit like saying that Zuckerberg is really good at deceiving people
No AI ever took a man to hell who hadn't already bought his ticket
The story is about desperate people and their willingness to burn down the planet rather than face the world in its real state
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Yeah I do know a little bit of networking and I would have definitely looked up opening 0.0.0.0/0. Not saying you did a bad or anything dergatory but I do double check things I am uncomfortable with.
phanto@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Yeah, I know enough too, but I worry about the sneaky details I don’t know.