I think it’s worse: it’s laziness. It’s easier to ask a machine so it does the job for you. And since it looks mostly ok, they keep doing it.
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smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 day agoIt’s because people get mislead by the “agent”, assuming there’s something actually intelligent at the other end, able to act like they would, just… Automated.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 1 day ago
snooggums@piefed.world 1 day ago
This is because the advertising for LLMs present them as if they were intelligent.
LLMs are being promoted as a tool that can do anything even though the only thing they do well is output text that resembles human patterns. It is a hammer and they are pretending everything is a nail.