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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (13 children)

I tell people who work under me to scrutinize it like it's a Google search result chosen for them using the old I'm Feeling Lucky button.

Just yesterday I was having trouble enrolling a new agent in my elk stack. It wanted me to obliterate a config and replace it with something else. Literally would have broken everything.

It's like copying and pasting stack overflow into prod.

AI is useful. It is not trustworthy.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, you just have to practice a little skepticism.

I don't know what its actual error rate is, but if we say hypothetically that it gives bad info 5% the time: you wouldn't want a calculator or an encyclopedia that was wrong that often, but you would really value an advisor that pointed you toward the right info 95% of the time.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

5% error rate is being very generous, and unlike a human, it won’t ever say “I’m not sure if that’s correct.”

Considering the insane amount of resources AI takes, and the fact it’s probably ruining the research and writing skills of an entire generation, I’m not so sure it’s a good thing, not to mention the implications it also has for mass surveillance and deepfakes.

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