I know the reputation that AI has on Lemmy, however I’ve found that some users (like myself) have found that LLMs can be useful tools.

What are fellow AI users using these tools for? Furthermore, what models are you using that find the most useful?

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    If what you want is sources, a regular Google search will do a better job if it’s a popular subject.

    Chatgpt and it’s kin will be inexplicably creative in its choice of sources, and in its summary thereof. And in the sources themselves sometimes.

    If it’s something you care to get right, just skip AI.
    If it’s meaningless, then it’s harmless in its potential inaccuracy

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      See just like a normal search its up to you to evaluate it. ai search wise is as I said another abstraction. Not using it is like turning off the little snipets search engines do nowadays and going back to just clicking an each and every link. The problem is people just taking the response as gospel with no critical thought.

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        Like a normal search, except it only provides like 4 links, it’s choice of links is even worse than Google SEO, and it provides inaccurate summaries of them rather than relevant text snippets.

        So yes, people just taking the response as gospel is bad. But also it’s just worse than search if you’re using it as a search.