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> > The image of Saturn was generated with ChatGPT. > Wait...wh...why?!? It has just begun. Wait until nobody bothers using Wikipedia, websites, or even one d

by echelon 10mo ago

> > The image of Saturn was generated with ChatGPT. > Wait...wh...why?!? It has just begun. Wait until nobody bothers using Wikipedia, websites, or even one day forums. This is going to eat everything. And when it's immediate to say something like, "I need a high contrast image of Saturn of dimensions X by Y, focus on Saturn, oblique angle" -- that's going to be magic. We'll look at the internet and Google like we look at going to the library and grabbing an encyclopedia off the shelves. The use of calculators didn't kill ingenuity, nor did the switch to the internet. Despite teachers protesting both. Humans will always use the lowest friction thing, and we will never stop reaching for the stars.

awesome_dude 10mo ago
I, for one, have been hoping that AI slop would cause people to be a LOT more cynical about the information they get (from the internet in particular, but from any source in general) But it's not happened yet
- echelon 10mo ago
  What statistical measures of "people" are you doing to measure this? How can you be sure nothing has changed? Anecdotally, I'm seeing a lot of "it looks like AI" comments on photos and videos now. That's the new "is it Photoshop?" I'd hold off on judgment until we get population studies on this.
  - awesome_dude 10mo ago
    What statistical measures i use to measure is of what importance to you? I haven't presented a measurement, just an expectation.
    - fc417fc802 10mo ago
      You said it hasn't happened yet and he's asking how you arrived at that conclusion.
taneq 10mo ago
I’ve been having The Talk with my kids recently. They’ll say “I looked up this question and the answer was X.” And I’ll ask “was that answer on a credible website, or was it an AI summary?” And then explain, again, that LLMs are great at producing plausible sounding explanations for things, but that you have to ground-truth anything that they tell you if it’s important that it’s correct.
- leptons 10mo ago
  Some countries are banning social media for teenagers, but they really should be banning "AI" all teenagers. Most adults can't even be trusted with asking an "AI" about anything, so children are going to have a very warped world view the more they interact with "AI". The tech really is not ready for prime time.
  - echelon 10mo ago
    I see plenty of people getting real work done with it. Why on earth would we ban it?
    - leptons 10mo ago
      I see plenty of people taking "hallucinations" as the truth, and teenagers above all do not have the mental capacity to tell truth from nonsense, so they are learning things that are completely false from "AI". Teenagers are not "people getting real work done with AI". I'm not sure how you could so completely misunderstand my comment.

by echelon 10mo ago

awesome_dude 10mo ago

I, for one, have been hoping that AI slop would cause people to be a LOT more cynical about the information they get (from the internet in particular, but from any source in general) But it's not happened yet

echelon 10mo ago
What statistical measures of "people" are you doing to measure this? How can you be sure nothing has changed? Anecdotally, I'm seeing a lot of "it looks like AI" comments on photos and videos now. That's the new "is it Photoshop?" I'd hold off on judgment until we get population studies on this.
- awesome_dude 10mo ago
  What statistical measures i use to measure is of what importance to you? I haven't presented a measurement, just an expectation.
  - fc417fc802 10mo ago
    You said it hasn't happened yet and he's asking how you arrived at that conclusion.

taneq 10mo ago

I’ve been having The Talk with my kids recently. They’ll say “I looked up this question and the answer was X.” And I’ll ask “was that answer on a credible website, or was it an AI summary?” And then explain, again, that LLMs are great at producing plausible sounding explanations for things, but that you have to ground-truth anything that they tell you if it’s important that it’s correct.

leptons 10mo ago
Some countries are banning social media for teenagers, but they really should be banning "AI" all teenagers. Most adults can't even be trusted with asking an "AI" about anything, so children are going to have a very warped world view the more they interact with "AI". The tech really is not ready for prime time.
- echelon 10mo ago
  I see plenty of people getting real work done with it. Why on earth would we ban it?
  - leptons 10mo ago
    I see plenty of people taking "hallucinations" as the truth, and teenagers above all do not have the mental capacity to tell truth from nonsense, so they are learning things that are completely false from "AI". Teenagers are not "people getting real work done with AI". I'm not sure how you could so completely misunderstand my comment.