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I've seen what it does and how often and the various ways it tends to fuck up, at least Google's search result llm because I'm not going out of my way to use this shit outside of trying to look up shit i was going to look up anyway (mentioning this because as a result i don't know if the model they're using is better but more expensive), and i really don't consider it a different experience than the last 6-10 years of having to look up a reddit thread to parse comments for information. I still have to figure out who knows what and how much they know and figure out how much I trust the information.
With the llm it's the same shit to me, I have to figure out if it's pulling from a source that knows anything, if the information is actually even present in the source it thinks it's from, if it's miscontextualizing the information, and if it's just trying to glaze me or frame its responses in relation to my prompt
The end result is i google shit and tend to find the information i'm looking for faster and without having to be exposed to 100s of tips m'fedora redditisms directly. In this way you could consider the llms use to be like those boxes you use to view an eclipse without hurting your eyes
Fair enough, if it works for you and you're aware of the downsides (which you seem to be, contrary to most users); two things I haven't even mentioned though are the power/environmental costs (obviously) but also the potential cognitive impact.
You say it doesn't change much compared to when you were parsing the reddit comments yourself; doesn't it ? how sure are you "wasting" time parsing these comments wasn't exercising an important muscle mentally for you (getting the jist of a text rapidly - excluding braindead content quickly, etc.) ?
Here the example is pretty ridiculous - I doubt your mental faculties depend much on parsing reddit comments - but you get the idea. It's very early to tell but several papers now suggest the negative cognitive impact is very real and potentially very fast.
Idk, pretty sure, since i feel the "is the lying machine lying to me or is it accurate" appraisal is about the same exercise and there's also the fact that an absolutely disgustingly large portion of reddit comments are themselves being made by llms now (as every single anti bot measure reddit ever uses only impacts real people, apparently)
Edit: Thank you for the concern though btw but if you ever do notice me exhibiting cognitive decline it is almost definitely gonna be a combination of the alcoholism, drug use, contraindicated drug use, and general medical decline