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Comment on Sending someone LLM output in response to a question they ask is the intellectual equivalent of sending an unsolicited dick pic.

CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

To me, it is exactly the same as people who linked lmgtfy.com or responded RTFM. If you send me an LLM summary, I’m assuming you’re claiming that I’m the asshole for bothering you. If I am being lazy, I’ll take the hint. If I’m struggling to find a way to do the research myself, either because I’m not sure how to properly research it myself, or because LLMs have made the internet nigh-unusable, I’m gonna clock you as a tremendous asshole.

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raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I think there’s an important nuance to lmgtfy or RTFM. These two were clearly identifiable as the kind of - sometimes snarky - min-effort response, and sometimes absolutely justified (e.g. if I googled the question of OP and the very first result correctly answers their question, which I have made the effort of checking myself).

For the slop responses however, the receiver has to invest sometimes considerable time into reading & processing it to even understand that it might be pure slop. And in doubt, as a reader we are left with the moral dilemma of potentially offending the writer by asking “Did you just send me LLM output?”

It is both harder to identify and it drives a wedge into online (and personal) relationships because it adds a layer of doubt or distrust. This slop shit is poison for internet friendships. Those tech bros all need to fuck off and use their money for a permanent coke trip straight until they become irrelevant. :/

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- CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Oh yeah, I was thinking of people who link to llm output, like this: chatgpt.com/…/697e8957-9494-8010-beb9-eb90c476051…
  
  Copy-pasting llm summaries is definitely worse.
  
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

RTFM

This one really sucked post 2001 or so when everything stopped coming with a fucking manual to read. What M and I supposed to R, guy?

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- BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The only time it’s been kind of relevant in my dealings is the Arch wiki, because it really is a solid resource. However, sometimes my issue is a specific one and I need more than general information on a process. RTFM ruins communities when someone is looking for support. It’s just an entitled response to someone asking for help.
  
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- Klear@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s not meant as an actual manual. What you’re really supposed to do is comb through ad-ridden google results until you find that one 10 years old reddit thread where someone thanks a deleted comment for solving the issue you have.
  
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  - raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    until you find that one 10 years old reddit thread where someone thanks a deleted comment for solving the issue you have.
    
    I wasn’t gonna upvote you, but that one made me chuckle. Also because I have posted many of those “deleted comments” and wiped my reddit profile as clean as I could before leaving years ago.
    
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