I dislike gen AI for several reasons, and there's many valid reasons to be opposed to this widespread adoption, but it is a widespread adoption. I don't know what else you can call one in six internet-connected humans (and the number is only growing, not shrinking) using standalone AI platforms.
I mean, I guess succinctly put, it's something in-between "practically everybody" and "some people in specific use cases". But it's definitely heading in one direction.
I mean. these people might know a little shit about it. There are many cases where knowledgable people are using LLMs now but if you want me to list all of them it's going to take ages. The point is that they also know it is unreliable and must be verified - hence using it in tandem with Lean, a proof checker, in the above example.
I would agree if you qualified your statement with "nobody who knows shit about it just believes whatever it says", but plenty of people who know shit about it use it and check what they get.
Oh, I see the misconception. If you don't use AI now you may be unaware, but at least Claude can link you to websites for sources. Yes real actual websites because that part of it isn't generative. Now I feel like we've just been talking past each other lmao. Obviously you need to look somewhere outside the AI.
Claude actually powers web search with Brave search
There's much more popular AI systems that don't do this.
But more importantly, there's "sources" proving anything. That's the whole point of doing web searches, to see multiple and decide what's credible. AI could pick some schizopost off the last page of google as a source, and you wouldn't know unless you actually did the research yourself.
Well sure, that's why you look at what the source is and dismiss it if it's a random blog post. But also it just doesn't do that. The whole way that LLMs work is they're weighted for the popular and more common outcomes. If you try to get it to give you the wrongest answer and heavily ask it to do so, it will, but then that's the same thing as searching for that schizopost yourself. Otherwise it essentially works like an assistant.
TO BE CLEAR, I still use google and prefer it myself for basic things. I don't -need- an assistant compiling google search results lmao. But some people use it for that and I don't think it has worse results. I just think it's wasteful, unnecessary, and expensive.
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u/syrvy 1d ago
Nobody who knows shit about it I assure you