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AI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. (diff.wikimedia.org)
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[–] reiterationstation@lemm.ee -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yea that’s a bad example of what to use ai for at least right now. You’re going to get bad results with that question.

It’s good for things, if you pay.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't want to ask ai. Google automatically gives me ai search results that are piss poor. Those useless results still use energy to generate.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Google automatically gives me ai search results that are piss poor.

And these results are taken at face value by a shocking number of people. I’ve gotten into niche academic arguments where someone just copy and pasted the AIs completed hallucinated response as “evidence.”

I experimented with using AI to generate basic quizzes for students on concepts like atomic theory or conservation of energy, but maybe 2/20 questions it came up with were any form of accurate/useful. Even when it’s not making shit up entirely, the information is so shallow as to be useless.