If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?

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• baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  who needs the web?

  Anybody who cares enough to confirm whatever stupid bullshit the AI probabilistically regurgitated without actual understanding.

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  • AlphaOmega@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Seriously, in my experience AI generated results are only actually correct maybe 10% of the time

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What I really don’t get is that there are in fact models that you can feed a document too and they will directly copy/paste quote relevant parts of that document in their reply complete with a little reference to the correct page. Basically a smarter ctrl-H function that can take sentences as input.

      When that exists why is google using the probabilistic shit in their search?

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• Yaky@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If we can get food by going to the grocery store, who needs farms?

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• dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  where will ai steal the info from without the web?

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• Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  LLMs, as the name suggests, are language models - not knowledge machines. Answering questions correctly isn’t what they’re designed to do. The fact that they get anything right isn’t because they “know” things, but because they’ve been trained on a lot of correct information. That’s why they come off as more intelligent than they really are. At the end of the day, they were built to generate natural-sounding language - and that’s all. Just because something can speak doesn’t mean it knows what it’s talking about.

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  • DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The ability to speak does not make you intelligent

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• Vanth@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My sister is a teacher and now has her students repeat back to her, “LLMs are not search engines”.

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• fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  LLM: Something like what somebody might say.

  Website: What somebody did say. (Depending on the site.)

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• etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Death to CSS and we just render for the AI crawlers?

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  • elvith@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, we could already be there for decades (not only AI, but search engines and other technologies, too)

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• Zeppo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The idea that AI is a “google killer” and a replacement for web sites always struck me as incredibly dumb. I know that’s how many people use it though, which is fairly awful. So, AI gets all of its information from websites. If it puts websites out of existence, where is it getting new information from?

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How else would I access the AI? 🤷‍♂️

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• MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  who needs the web?

  Generative AI that’s who. For it to spit out information, it needs information. The argument may be that it is better at collecting all that information in one place and returning an answer, although we know it hallucinates responses. But to even begin a response it needs data, it needs the web.

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