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Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Yeah switching search links will help but it’s a band-aid. AI has stolen literally everyone’s work without any attempt at consent or remuneration and the reason is now your search is 100 times faster, comes back with exactly something you can copy & paste and you never have to dig through links or bat away confirmation boxes to find out it doesn’t have what you need.

It’s straight up smash-n-grab. And it’s going to work. Just like everybody and their grandma gave up all their personal information to facebook so will your searches be done through AI.

The answer is to regulate the bejesus out of AI and ensure they haven’t stolen anything. That answer was rendered moot by electing trump.

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Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I don’t know about you, but my results have been wrong or outdated at least a quarter of the time. If you flip two coins and both are heads, your information is outright useless. What’s the point in looking something up to maybe find the right answer?

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- homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I’ve been asking a bunch of next-to-obvious questions about things that don’t really matter and it’s been pretty good. It still confidently lies when it gives instructions but a fair amount of time it does what I asked it for.
  
  I’d prefer to not have it, because it’s ethically putrid. But it converts currency and weights and translates things as well as expected and in half the time i’d spend doing it manually. Plus I kind of hope using it puts them out of business. It’s not like I’d pay for it.
  
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  - madsen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I refuse to believe that it’s in any way better or faster at unit and currency conversion than plain Google or DuckDuckGo. Literally type “100 EUR to USD” and you’ll get an almost instant answer. Same with units: “100 feet to meters”.
    
    And if you’re using it, you’re helping their business. It’s as simple as that.
    
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    Eranziel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    100%. Unit conversion is a solved problem, and it is impossible for an AI to be faster or more accurate than any of the existing converters.
    
    I do not need an AI calculator, because I have no desire to need to double check my calculator.
    
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  - balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    But it converts currency and weights and translates things as well as expected and in half the time i’d spend doing it manually
    
    So does qalc, and it can also do arithmetic and basic calculus quickly and (gasp) correctly!
    
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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Curious what and how you’re prompting. I get solid results, but I’m only asking for hard facts, nothing that could have opinion or agenda inserted. Also, I never go past the first prompt. There be dragons that way.
  
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  - Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Niche history and mineralogy topics. Just looking for threads to tug. I found that it offered me threads but they often did not lead anywhere relevant or outright did not exist. Which is fine, but kinda removes my need for AI. If I have a general purpose question, I check certain websites. I already know how to serve myself everyday information. AI’s just not helpful for my use case.
    
    Overall, It’s time neutral. But it raises my blood pressure when it hallucinates, and dying of a stroke is undesirable for me.
    
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