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JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 day agopeople continue using “AI” despite it being worse than worthless for literally everything
On the contrary, AI’s been extraordinarily useful for me this year. BUT– I try my best to understand its ins and outs… i.e., where it’s most accurate, and when it’s most prone to hallucinating confidently incorrect replies.
Pretty much any tool has a narrow range of uses, and is useless for everything else. So it kinda makes sense to me that a ‘do all’ tool would naturally have plenty of flaws in its early stages.
Carnelian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah we’re 3 years past where the scam artists claimed this shit will have already evolved out of its early stages. It ain’t happening.
It takes no effort at all to understand the ins and outs btw. It’s “accurate” for the most abundantly well documented problems you used to solve in half the time by just copy/pasting from stack overflow. The rest of the time it contradicts the advice your mom’s doctor gave her. Sooooo useful wow. But sure shoot your shot, I’d love to hear about how you used it to build a grocery list app or whatever you’re so excited about
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Huh, well aren’t you absolutely dripping with cynicism.
Anyway, GPT5.1 and 5.2 have been hugely useful to me across a variety of topics, mainly functioning as a sort of enhanced search engine. For example, loads of searches would take me a lot of time to fully explore the various nuances of that GPT can typically pull together in a coherent way in only seconds.
Probably the most use of all is in helping with my issues that come from learning French, but it’s also helped me with graphics tasks that would have taken me ages in GIMP, helped ID various unknown animals, helped with stats analysis in sports, and easily two dozen other things I’ve needed help with in the past year.
So you can hang on to your sourpuss attitude all you like, while I reap the growing number of benefits AI has offered me. And no– that doesn’t mean I love AI or don’t see its very real dangers down the road to human workforces. That stuff I’m indeed very concerned about in the late-stage capitalist reality we live in.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2 hours ago
I noticed that Gemini 3, GPT-5.1+, and Claude 4.5 all hallucinate at a level that is equal to sifting through crap on Stack Ovetflow to find a solution that fits.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 hour ago
I’ll take your word for it, as I don’t have that specific experience.
What I’m still exploring is how to get the best out of GPT while working around its limitations. I try to avoid putting it in positions in which it has a chance to hallucinate, and am trying to train it towards a bias towards stating uncertainty where it might not be absolutely sure.
Carnelian@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Okay so this time it’s “I like to fuck around with irrelevant sports statistics and I’m really excited to eventually humiliate myself the first time I try my French with a native speaker”
Listen. Thanks for sharing. I genuinely mean that btw I’m aware I’m being abrasive but you’re putting out your perspective in good faith and I appreciate that. That being said I obviously strongly disagree with any of what you’ve listed being a “benefit”, and I especially caution you against considering SlopGPT to be a “nuanced” source of information for your search queries.
There is a difference between believing you have benefitted and actually benefitting. It’s astonishing to me that you would be concerned about the capitalists yet trust them so adamantly in this moment to manage your very relationship with information. Regardless, I hope you have a happy and safe new year. Cheers
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 21 hours ago
That simply isn’t the case, whether or not you choose to believe it, or tot it up on the massive axe you obviously have to grind in these matters. For whatever reasons, you’re choosing to lump me in to a group of people I never belonged to in the first place, which is a -you- problem, and not mine.
And no, GPT is certainly not my primary learning aid upon French. In fact, it’s one of about half a dozen tools I use, which I’m constantly cross-checking against each other for accuracy, forming an overall highly-useful ‘teacher’ of sorts. So when you lead with that pedantic little bit of fluff, what you’re really telling me is that you have no idea what you’re talking about. You seem to see these things in highly binary terms, once again a “you” problem.
Yeah sure, bonne année and cheers, mate.