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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago
[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like learned helplessness is back from the grave with a new definition

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

It never went away.

Sincerely, someone who works in IT support.

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Am I the only one who tried a LLM like twice, saw it gave out bullshit, then never tried it again (though I do see it forced on me with general searches, be it google or DDG or Bing or kinda anywhere now)?

I tried Copilot to answer a couple of coding questions, and I ended up having to take as much time to double check the answers/code it didn't seem worth it.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

People who know what they're doing don't use these "tools", it's the fools and morons out there who have no idea how anything works that use these things and they don't double check them before they implement their crap code.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Yep, I see very little value in them. I have techie friends who keep telling me I should try it more, but it just pisses me off and creeps me out. It took a long time getting this brain working as well as it does, and it's already headed back downhill. My neurons need the exercise.

[–] cacti@ani.social 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

FYI, you can use noai.duckduckgo.com to disable AI searches :)

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[–] dai@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've asked LLMs a few simple coding questions, only to question why the code isn't working receiving an Oh sorry here try this malformed garbage instead.

I've asked Gemini to generate an image, only to receive a completely black image. When asked to describe the image Gemini would tell me what I was requesting it to generate. I saved the image, uploaded to Gemini and asked to describe the image. It gaslit me and straight lied that it was not the same image.

What a waste of time and resources.

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I use it to help me write because of my dyslexia. But that’s really all it’s good for. Nothing advance like creating one line diagrams for electrical installs. I tried. It sucked at it.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Imagine asking AIs to form your own opinion.

"Grok, should I support Ukraine or Russia?"

Who would have thought that we are all becoming like Batman's villain, Two Face, to make decisions from an inanimate object.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

The nickname is new, the behaviour isn't.

At the risk of coming off judgemental of family, my mother in law is exactly like this; especially when it comes to anything related to the computer.

My partner is an only child and every time mother dearest has any kind of issue, real or imagined, with her computer, she's hitting the speed dial for my partner's phone. At this point she's kind of in a mindset of "I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas". If she can't get an immediate response she actually starts to think about the problem logically, and tries to fix it herself.

Luckily, she hasn't been inundated with AI chat bots yet.

I'm certain that if she could manage to get to chat gpt, she would be asking it what to do about everything under the sun... Lucky for her, I work in IT support and manage what updates she gets, or more accurately, doesn't get.

She's a fairly mild example since she actually tries when she can't get an instant response from someone on what to do. There's plenty of people that do not.

I'm almost entirely convinced that some of the willful ignorance is simply people aggressively keeping to their job descriptions (at least when it comes to what I normally have to deal with)... They don't try to fix their computer because that's not their job. Even if they know how, they won't. That's not in their job description. It gives them an excuse to work less and get paid for it.

Regardless of the reason, people often know nothing about things and don't care to be informed on the subject, they just want the easy answer as to what they need to do next. Unfortunately for them, life is rarely that "black and white".

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 111 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Lemmy, how do I feel about this?

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 76 points 4 days ago (4 children)

You've entered a fugue state.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 55 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I work in a very technical field and I used to be worried that I wouldn't be able to keep up into my 40s and 50s but seeing how genZ deals with technology makes me much less concerned. I feel like we're heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I feel like we’re heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.

Almost feels too simple, given how brainrotted boomers are.

It's like there's a window with elder Millenials and Gen X, people who straddled the line of before/after the internet as they were growing up, that are sane.

Everyone else is broken.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

100%. My brother in-law is like 10 years younger than me. Holy fuck is he stupid. Man has stage 4 Joe Rogan /gpt induced brain rot

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 47 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey remember how social media cause all types of cognitive issues? Y’all ready for round two?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I'm still not ready for round one. Can we go back?

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Idiocracy wasn't supposed to be a documentary.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I didnt ask Ai before i made this comment.

Its a natural home grown comment, 100% AI free, from one of my favorite braincells.

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Username checks out.

We still at war with Eastasia?

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 14 points 3 days ago

Always have been my friend.

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[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Be precise. Based on My interactions with Lemmy, will I find this true or false. Write My opinion in 3 sentences.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 53 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That is an excellent idea! Based on post history you want to live in a swamp, cover yourself in mouldy leaves and cook soup from frogs and old tennis socks. Was this reply helpful?

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Sometimes I worry I'm too lazy. Then I read headlines like this.

[–] sanderium@lemmy.zip 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think that overall it takes more effort verifying ChatGPT answers than actually researching.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't think the people using ChatGPT like that actual verify its answers.

I suspect they don't even know its answers cannot be trusted.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 47 points 4 days ago (3 children)

"Someone said 'second hand thinker' and I still think about that daily," another user added.

That’s solid but not specific enough. I know a lot of people let YouTube and TikTok do their thinking these days.

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How soon till cult mechanicus is recognized for religious tax breaks?

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Oh the Gen Xers in my office, they are killing me with these AI answers.

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[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

ChatGPT is the ultimate 'cultural product of the postmodern era,' and very few of us have been inoculated with a theory of mind that distinguishes language from thought," Foster concluded in his newsletter.

The best description of this distinction I've encountered was in a science fiction novel - Blindsight by Peter Watts.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

LLM thumping slopvangelicals.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Hell, it's getting hard to avoid. DuckDuckGo now has an AI answer at the top of search results. When doing technical searches, it's usually just regurgitating the top StackOverflow answer, but there is always the problem that it could be regurgitating a bad answer. Or badly regurgitating an answer. So, it's usually best to ignore it and read the answer it's trying to give and then research what the person actually said and if it's right.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 22 points 4 days ago

at least ddg respects the "never show me this" toggle.

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[–] Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I use Mistral Ai instead because I don’t touch and US products or services. The most common thing I ask is: check and tidy up these notes add formatting for readability, present as a markdown code block, add some nerd fonts.

those frickin clankers should just unplug themselves

We’re cooked.

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