Now a days people refer to AI instantly for an answer. Maybe it’s a problem they could have solved within 10min in their head or a question they could have done an internet search on and read a few forums to figure out. However, now people go straight to AI which is known to give many many wrong answers.
I know a couple people that fit this bill and now I almost completely disregard what they say. We’ll even be talking face to face and they’ll ask AI something from our conversation in real time.
Just using slop generators at all makes you a moron in my books. Unfortunately I am something of a moron myself when I use free services in an anonymous browser tab to find out something not clear from documentation.
Yes. It’s getting weird. Had a coworker ask me a question if something was possible. I said yes. He said: no, ai said it wasn’t. I didn’t understand why he asked me if he knew the answer already lol. They just accept ai as truth, can’t take those people seriously.
My boss did similar thing to me. Asked me something as a specialist, did not believe my answer until he queried an llm and it spit out answer confirming my position. At this point, why even ask people you pay anything? Just wing it with a chat bot and see how it goes.
delusion
At this point, why even ask people you pay anything?
He asked you for that exact reason… but then you gave him an answer he didn’t want. He may or may not have known what answer he wanted but as soon as you gave it he knew he wanted it to be something else. The quickest way to get a second opinion, was to ask the LLM.
If it had hallucinated the answer he wanted, he would have demanded going that route, because the AI said so, even if it was literally impossible.
And in his mind, this reinforced the AI as being correct, so he’s will be more likely to blindly accept it’s responses in the future.
Confirmation bias is one hell of a drug and AI is our supplier. It’ll be our downfall
Yes i do; My sister and her husband work in tech and they have become that kind of people that ask chat GTP for everything. I think what gets me the most is not that they ask AI but that they do so on the most obvious inconsequential things. I also hate when they use it as a research tool or to get a quick superficial answer. I often tell them I don’t care what AI has to say.
For some reason when people share AI music; it really grinds my gears. I am not a musician but a long time music fan and for some reason any type of AI generated music is an existential insult to me, aside from the fact that it all sucks.
This is terrifying. I would have thought tech professionals would be the most resistant to AI. Job openings in tech are becoming scarce and people seem to have to take a pledge of allegisnce to LLMs to bpget a shoe in.
yes i ignore their input
Depends what it’s used for. Coworkers use it to generate memes a fair bit. I also use it as a starting point for looking stuff up occasionally, partly because so many fucking websites are AI generated now I may as well ask a more direct question to AI instead. Then once I have a more specific answer I can look that up somewhere more reliable.
Recent example there being looking up things to grow in my allotment, give general goals and conditions and get a list of things. Then see what sounds interesting from that list and look that up on the RHS website.
I use it a bit, but generally only for checking my own work and helping me rewrite things so they’re less harsh
I generally take everything they say with a giant grain of salt, but that was somewhat true even before 2022. Most of the AI-reliant people I know were never that great at evaluating sources of information. It’s just that the problem is far more pronounced now.
yes.
there’s someone at work that doesn’t read emails or reports, has AI generate the answers for them and just regurgitates the slop unfiltered.
I interact with them until they start posting slop, then I just ignore that they posted it. when I say ignore, I literally pretend that it doesn’t even exist.
if they can pretend that slop has value, I can pretend that it doesn’t exist.
It bugs me, yes. The anthromorphic “ask AI” makes it even worse.
Personally, it’s people who get answers from some so-called “book” or “university” or “expert” that grind my gears. Like think for yourself maybe?
That’s some good sarcasm.
I know a guy who does that. He used to be smart, but it feels like those antivax who refer to other people instead of using their brain. When he begins to talk about AI results, I zone out, and I’m starting to disregard everything he says, AI or not.
friend of me also: So i asked the ai and it said… yeah whatever dude i don’t care
I’ve gotten my llm using friends to preface it with “the lying liar that lies says” which has in turn led to a sharp upturn in “but also the top link says” and generally helps keep me alert.
It depends what they ask.
A lot of questions are fairly accurate to ask AI.
Also, some people are smart enough to habe configured their pre-prompt to reduce common issues with AI platforms.
There’s a big difference between:
“Hey whats the answer to (esoteric question)”
Vs
“Hey can you find me a paper on (well documented topic)” (and then opening the paper up and reading the actual source)
Using it as a powerful fuzzy search tool with semantic intent is fine.
Its the difference between asking a librarian how to cure cancer, vs asking the librarian to help you quickly find a book on cancer treatments.
I know only one person who’s completely fallen under the spell, but yes.
Though to be fair, I already disregarded most of what he said since he’s a reactionary conservative who spends his days pouring right-wing podcasts into his ears at 1.5x. But at least on topics other than politics, he used to be fairly knowledgeable and trustworthy.
But since he’s started telling me how impressed he is by how smart Claude is (since it tells him what he wants to hear), I’ve started disregarding everything he says, regardless of topic.
