• Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    You are spending more time and effort doing that than you would googling old fashioned way. And if you don’t check, you might as well throwing magic 8-ball, less damage to the environment, same accuracy

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      13 days ago

      The latest GPT does search the internet to generate a response, so it’s currently a middleman to a search engine.

      • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        No it doesn’t. It incorporates unknown number of words from the internet into a machine which only purpose is to sound like a human. It’s an insanely complicated machine, but the truthfulness of the response not only never considered, but also is impossible to take as a deaired result.
        And the fact that so many people aren’t equipped to recognise it behind the way it talks could be buffling, but also very consistent with other choices humanity takes regularly.

    • bradd@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      When it’s important you can have an LLM query a search engine and read/summarize the top n results. It’s actually pretty good, it’ll give direct quotes, citations, etc.