I’m well aware that there are “dedupe” services out there, but I’m still very leery of giving a third-party service access to the entirety of my cloud backups. So, when I saw that Microsoft now offers the ability to send Copilot agents into your OneDrive files (version 1.0!), I thought, hey, this was worth checking out. It was time for a good spring cleaning of my cloud storage.
If he was “leery of giving a third-party service access to the entirety of my cloud backups”, why would he trust hallucinating and unpredictable software more than a deterministic and fully predictable software.
You just did the opposite of what would be a much safer option 🤦
Can any technically illiterate moron write technical articles for a pc magazine?
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 day ago
What a clown. In what world do you require an LLM to check for duplicate pictures??
I mean, good on him for realizing that LLMs are dogshit. But still.
fafferlicious@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A good journalist does not just write for themselves, they must also write for the audience as the audience. They are the readers proxy and ask questions on behalf of the reader.
Imagine a generic shmuck that has no idea ctrl +c and ctrl +v are hot keys.
Now. Do you think they have any concept of what type of duplication tools exist? Do you think they’d just want to use this “super cool everything” software that AI is billed as? After all, it’s supposed to be smart right? They say it’s the next best thing and it’s almost like magic.
Look, I’m not saying it’s a great article. But given all the bullshit hype regular people hear about AI. Is it really unreasonable to think “copilot, help me find duplicated files in my one drive” would be something good old Billy would try?
Maybe it’s not a great article because there are better ways to de-duplicate photos. But that isn’t the fucking point of the article. The article is “look at how AI still fucking fails at basic shit we expect it to be good at.”
And for that, I thank the author. We need way more of that.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 1 day ago
There are people who can’t properly function without an llm. And it’s not just a few, a good bunch of humans have decided to leave the reasoning skills to a chatbot so they don’t have to do it.
XLE@piefed.social 1 day ago
And I feel sympathy towards all of them, except the ones who appeared on the Jimmy Fallon Show to promote helplessness as a lifestyle.
Zephorah@discuss.online 22 hours ago
This is both expected and mystifying at the same time.
How dead in the head do you have to be to RELY on such things?
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 day ago
It’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.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I suppose not everyone has the technical skills.