Eh, no. If you think you can offload your mental burdens onto any single source, then that's a you problem, not an AI problem. LLMs are still getting better, but I don't think we should hold our breaths to them getting to a point where no verification is needed. If you asked a human subject matter expert an important question, would you verify or would you just assume not only that they're right, but also that you understood them correctly?

But your post really embodies everything that is off with AI "critique" on Lemmy. One paragraph: LLMs are just random (unlike true intellect which somehow presumably don't emerge from probabilistic phenomena?). Next paragraph: LLMs are racist.

To be clear, the way AI is being pushed is bad in many different ways, and you didn't even mention the worst examples which in my mind would be how AIs are currently being used to kill people, for example it is likely that it helped the US to murder 170 children in Minab. But again, that's not a technology issue, it's an issue with how humans interact with technology.

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

LLMs are random. Its weighted randomness that frequently values racist outputs like whitewashing a crowd or calling black people monkies (to name two recent examples), but it is still random. That's why you can ask it the same question twice and get two different answers.

Ever notice how AI defenders try to pretend the technology is better than it is, and brush past the countless failings and ethical failures inherent to the technology by condemning humanity? A bad toolsmith blames the worker, I guess. At a certain point, if the technology is only doing bad things, or doing things badly, it might just be bad technology.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

If they're random, they can not be racist. That's my point. They're returning output based on the data they've been fed (assuming we're talking about training an LLM on Twitter).

I have noticed that North American grifters pretend that AI is much better than it is, thank you very much. I also notice that China is taking a different approach, with the population being significantly more hopeful about AI going forward as a result.

I think AI "critique" on Lemmy is, for the most part, North American backlash stemming from bad practices, overpromising, environmental destruction and a general financial grift that threatens jobs. Those are all very relevant and valid, but I think it completely misses the point to blame a technology rather than a political/economic system.