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Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And you have to wade through so much to find the right one. Or type in AI wait a minute and get the answer.

Uhhh, type in AI, wait a minute and get an answer. How are you checking it? rm - f / isn't the only filesystem footgun.

I'm finding AI to be right roughly only 60% of the time, and it's as bad and hallucinatory about shell scripts as it is about everything else.

It will happily admit its mistakes and give you another answer when you call it out, but it's no more likely to be right that time.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I've had them give me the exact same answer a second time. They politely apologized first, of course, and they were just as confident that it was correct as the first time.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You check it by following the link to the webpage where it found your answer and reading that.

AI as a search engine is good, but never blatantly trust any search result they come up with. It is however incredible at wading through the slop that is SEO.