Comment on How People Are Really Using GenAI
wewbull@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Most people use it as a search engine now that Google is shit.
Comment on How People Are Really Using GenAI
wewbull@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Most people use it as a search engine now that Google is shit.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
For real. I’ve been using Google since 2000 and it now costs me substantially more cognitive load to find things than if I just ask a LLM.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I can’t trust the output of an LLM but at least you can ask it to cite its sources so you can get the page that helped it come to that conclusion
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
If I ask an LLM something like “is there a git project that does <something I’d describe in natural language but not keywords>” or is there a Windows program that does X, it may make up the answers, but at least I can verify that via a search engine. If I try to Google that (that’s theoretical, I don’t use Google), I’m going to end up on a page full of ads that is filled with trap links that lead to malware, top 10 lists with the same repeated content and all the other shit the internet has become. I kind of don’t mind the hallucinations relative to the ads. What a time to be alive though.
aniki@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You immediately start from a better place using an LLM vs searching raw. If I just need a link, I use DDG. When I need to research, I ask the latest gpt4-turbo model.