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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Sadly I have generally watched in horror as my friends quote Gemini slop as fact checking on the regular, because it's the default search result.
I speak up about it, and explain why it's problematic. Doesn't matter. It's convenient.
Convenience always wins.
We're cooked.
I know people that will complain about the crappy results but then not use a different search engine. Like it's too much cognitive load to go to duckduckgo or qwant or whatever
To be fair, duck duck go also has some garbage results compared to like 2015 google. I have used ddg for the past several years and many topics yield terrible results. I was "the good googler" amongst my peers at the time. I haven't tried qwant, so it might be better. A lot of search engines are worse and I'm guessing it's partially because the web is just bloated with trash now.
I downloaded the Wikipedia app - I usually end up there anyway, just now I just cut to the chase.
Hmm, makes me wonder if a big factor is that it reads the first couple of results and summarizes it. Like if it was turned off, people wouldn't bother clicking through and reading, so they just leave and and "fact" get saved in their brains
This was always a thing. The results on page 1 had a much greater click rate than on page 2+
That used to be a direct result of how good the search was. In the aughts it was generally on page 1 or you had to rephrase your query; the remaining results were the era’s equivalent of ‘slop’, link trees and redirect rabbit holes and plaintext sites with random stolen content. I was met with genuine surprise any time I found what I was looking for on page 3 or 4
Where do you think grok gets the info?
Mein Kampf.
And hence why we call it "métrage" in French, as in "un long métrage" (a feature film) and "un court métrage" (a short film) ; because we measure in metres !
Full movie, largometraje Short film, cortometraje
There are many different tiers and types of AI users. Anyone who uses Grok might not be eligible for the death penalty in the US due to diminished capacity.
They would in a type of society where it's considered evidence of imperfect genes.
I thought it got it from Elon Musk. That's why it's stupid as fuck. 🤷♂️
I never really used A.I at all. I remember the very first wave of midjurney i think, and i found it fascinating, made a few pictyres and was like woah, cool. Never touched it again. Tge other day i wanted to make an STL file but i didn't really feel like learnic CAD, so i thought: A.I is supposed to be supper smart and can create images and code and shit, right? I sat down and told it what i need and it started creating something. It looked nice and all, but missed the mark. I exoplained what was wrong and it made something else. Most of the time it ran in circles and said: oh i get it, and made the same thing again. It made things that weren't connected. Sometimes it made sometging that was close and when i told it what to change it made sometging else entirely that was all kinds of wrong. After a while it wasn't even about tge thing anymore, i juat wanted to figure out why it can't do it. At the end i sat on my couch for like 3 hours and it was nothing. I do not understand how prople claim that A.I is so smart, it was one of the most frustrating thimgs that i have done in a long time. It was like explaining somethimg to someone who clearly doesn't get it, and you just do it yourself at the end.
When I was a kid I thought “talkie” was such a ridiculous, funny-sounding word for the advent of films with sound. It was only years later that I realized that the word “movie” which I had never thought twice about was almost the exact same thought process for, you know, pictures that moved.
Enter all the cineasts that sighs and says "Films, not movies"
Movie is an Americanism.
*English (simplified) /s
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Is there a term for people who only get answers from Ai?
Like some AI cuck?
I've seen cogsuckers used before.
“Most people” is the term you’re looking for. You could also call them “normies”.
sloperator
Botbrains.
Ah yes, those people with brAIns
Slopheads
I like it. Reminds me of Red Dwarf
Dumbass Cogsuckers
It could be argued that they are a willing variant of Reverse Centaur
Start with what a reverse centaur is. In automation theory, a "centaur" is a person who is assisted by a machine. You're a human head being carried around on a tireless robot body. Driving a car makes you a centaur, and so does using autocomplete.
And obviously, a reverse centaur is a machine head on a human body, a person who is serving as a squishy meat appendage for an uncaring machine.
That's not a slur though, it's generally sympathetic.
ROFL I always wonder if we are totally cooked as a society, if the billionaires are going to get what they want. Sometimes, I think so. However, there are enough people that thing LLMs are total bullshit and won't be lured in. Good on Merriam Webster to clap back on grok induced stupidity!
Merriam-Webster is a source of factual information. Factual information is woke or something. Elon doesn't allow grok to consider anything woke in its answers. Therefore grok doesn't get the info from Merriam-Webster.
@grok how do i wipe my ass after poop?
GROK: Go waterskiing naked & sitting down, only do it on a road with a car.
USER: Sounds fun, thx!
We have "Schadenfreude". We're gonna need a word for physical pain caused by witnessing such stupidity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_embarrassment
I was pointed to that by looking up myötähäpeä.
Is death by facepalm a thing?
If you're lucky, this is where it gets its info.
To be fair, I wouldn't expect grok to be using actual facts and reputable sources as its baseline knowledge, given its owner.
Either dumb or deliberately summoning fucking Grok just for the lulz.
So the only explanation here, is that they thought Merriam Webster is a person not an Encyclopedia, right?
@grok explain this I lack braincells