Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I would much rather be directed to correct information than be told information that may not be correct. Bad information causes me to waste my time and money.
If its a situation where bad info can cause you to waste significant time and lose money then Copilot is not the right tool for the job. But thats not every query and I wouldnt even say its more than half our search queries.
Its boring that people are completely unwilling to engage at all with the arugment. Comparing a situation where you get the wrong info from an LLM with a situation where you get the correct info from google is pointless and shows nothing. Ignoring that people get the wrong info from google all the time is so disingenuous. Everyone would acknowledge google is still a useful resource even if there is the chance to come away with the wrong answer.
So the real comparison to make isnt correct answer from google 100% of the time vs correct answer from copilot 60% of the time. Its correct answer from google 90% of the time vs copilots 70%. So you can weigh up the options and use the right tool for the job.