I feel fucked up that I use AI now in place of google searches. (hexbear.net)

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Plugging into chatgpt how to play a certain game for example spits out clear and concise information I'd spend the better part of half an hour scraping reddit for and subjecting myself to psychic damage. And it makes me feel bad in turn that I'm part of the problem polluting the earth with this crap. Honestly feels like the internet has been enshitified on purpose just to make people have to rely on ai to navigate it without throwing your hands up in frustration.

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[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

I used AI one whole time when I couldn't figure out where a setting was in a program, and it just got it wrong and I spent another half-hour (it probably wasn't actually that long) trying to find it myself, but even more angry because I had interacted with AI.

I still cannot find the use-value for this shit. The closest I've gotten is making use of AI captioning, which is still flawed but a better alternative than no captions at all. That said, it wouldn't be as useful if somebody had been born deaf or something like that, because they wouldn't know what similar-sounding words or phrases the AI got wrong and be able to fix it with context clues.

[-] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I still cannot find the use-value for this shit

in my (limited) experience with text-outputting LLMs the things they are good for are

changing the tone of a short to medium length piece of text (i used it to re-word an email to sound "professional", something i am not good at)
giving a base chunk of text to manually edit (i am bad at writing about myself so got the robot to do it then fucked with it a lot)
giving a list of randomly generated names that fit quite specific criteria (i use it sometimes to name things in ttrpgs if my imagination fails me)

i have never asked it for information myself and am quite surprised that it actually worked for SFS

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