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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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So hate is just the extreme end of an "unfriendly feeling" which is synonymous to a negative feeling. We can go "golden middle" on this and say that moderate negative feelings are ideal, but even the moderate form seems synonymous to bias or prejudice.

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[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One that LLMs can never get right is asking them to cite a textbook.

I'm not sure if it's a deliberate inability due to copyright concerns.

[–] quacky@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah thats frustrating. Ai will lie to you too, so lack of citations + lies. Also, in the US, our Miranda rights read as "everything you say can and will be used against you" and chatgpt works with federal governmemt. The words "agent" and "intelligence" are also the same as used in CIA. If it lies and cant cite properly, how is it intelligent? Its bc its gathering intelligence from you. (spooky) anyways, i find the best use of AI is a search engine, but that is also extremely problematic bc it has a bias and will omit information. All around, i agree with Vaush that AI is demon-tech. Also as a PSA... use lumo or duck.ai, but also dont use them either bc ai is brain rot and also inherenrly risky