Comment on $219 Springer Nature book on machine learning was written with a chatbot

tfowinder@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Okay so hear me out on this. The book mentioned in this article is definitely a trash, the author used LLM without informing readers, which is why most people feel the are being scammed and express feelings of frustration and hate.

I personally have deployed LLMs on my local machines and used them for variety of things such as Summarize news and Articles, Coding, Image Generation, etc and I have to be honest it is really really impressive technology. Any author who takes assistance from LLM would be hyper-productive compared to someone who does all the labour themselves. I used to take hours to read a broad area of knowledge and then deep dive in intrested topics. When LLMs generate summary and you can decide weather to read the source yourself or not is a big time saver and productivity boost. Of course this can be abused by someone who trusts LLMs too much and don’t again verifies what they read, it can give false information but that’s not how they are supposed to be used.

These language models are really good at creating summaries. I use a locally deployed LLM to read summaries of Articles and then if I feel interested I read the entire article end to end from original source. In Almost every case the summary is spot on without it missing any important points or topics, heck I have created system prompt so that it tries to give hot takes and nuanced perspectives from the article and it impresses me sometimes giving me a new perspective which I would have not thought otherwise.

I am convinced that using LLM along with your own knowledge always surpasses the quality of your work if someone with your same capability generates work without taking assistance of a LLM.

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