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Personally seen this behavior a few times in real life, often with worrying implications. Generously I'd like to believe these people use extruded text as a place to start thinking from, but in practice is seems to me that they tend to use extruded text as a thought-terminating behavior.

IRL, I find it kind of insulting, especially if I'm talking to people who should know better or if they hand me extruded stuff instead of work they were supposed to do.

Online it's just sort of harmless reply-guy stuff usually.

Many people simply straight-up believe LLMs to be genie like figures as they are advertised and written about in the "tech" rags. That bums me out sort of in the same way really uncritical religiosity bums me out.

HBU?

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago

I respond in ways like we did when Wikipedia was new: “Show me a source.” … “No GPT is not a source. Ask it for its sources. Then send me the link.” … “No, Wikipedia is not a source, find the link used in that statement and send me its link.”

If you make people at least have to acknowledge that sources are a thing you’ll find the issues go away. (Because none of these assholes will talk to you anymore anyway. ;) )

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

GPT will list fake sources. Just in case you aren't aware. Most of these things will.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

My municipality used hallucinated references to justify closing down schools.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Hallois tjallabais!

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

It made up some references allegedly saying larger schools were better for learning than smaller schools among other things. But the main reason for restructuring the school structure was to save money.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It's government. Reason doesn't enter into it

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