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.

  • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    How many times until you disregard them?. Is it like if you see someone using it one time or is it after the tenth time? What’s the cutoff or frequency compared to a standard search? Is it if 50%+ of their searches are through AI or is it like 5%+?

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      2 days ago

      That’s something I’m in the process of figuring out. My Spidey senses are on high alert for if what these people say sound like it could be from AI or their own brain functioning. It’s sad that I have to put effort into discerning a difference. Some of these people use AI more than the others. I know one really does seem to rely on Perplexity quite a bit

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        2 days ago

        How do you feel like a Wikipedia level of usage? That is it pulls links to actual research and studies that are then verified? Of course not all research is created equally.

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          21 hours ago

          That goes into the topic if how credible any given study is and would need to be looked into first hand regardless of finding it on Wikipedia or through AI. Pretty much everything and everyone’s opinion has a bias, more so now a days with politics putting a spin into everything and LLMs are also created with biases. I don’t trust AI to give a credible answer, it consistently gives incorrect answers, I don’t have much reason to give people credibly if they constantly spout what an AI told them

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            18 hours ago

            You kinda totally avoided actually answering the question. Like you said a lot about aspects of the question without actually answering it.