There is a reason why RAG and fine-tuning are big topics in the field. General foundation models are good for general low risk info, but if people really care its generally not enough.
Comment on Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?
kalleboo@lemmy.world 4 months agoIt used to be you’d search for something, click on the results and load the ads on the page with the info.
Then google started adding their snippets with direct answers, and yes, there has been an uproar from content sites about that. But some fraction of people still click through for more context.
With LLMs, all that traffic is 100% gone.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
themurphy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Unfortunately, most people don’t care. That’s why most get their news from Facebook or TikTok, and only read headlines.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I mean I don’t care for most things, we don’t all need to experts on the topic of the week imho
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 4 months ago
Eh, I might ask the LLM about something, but I always open it sources to verify it summaries. You still can’t trust them fully.
CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s just kicking the can down the road. They’ll be exactly as trustworthy as your own brain at summarizing articles soon. What then?
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 4 months ago
I still want to know the source of what I’m being told. There are plenty of brains out there smarter than mine, I’ll still ask for sources.