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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I had a song intermittently stuck in my head for over a decade, couldn't remember the artist, song name, or any of the lyrics. I only had the genre, language it was in, and a vague, memory-degraded description of a music video. Over the years I'd tried to find it on search engines a bunch of times to no avail, using every prompt I could think of. ChatGPT got it in one. So yeah, it's very useful for stuff like that. Was a great feeling to scratch that itch after so long. But I wouldn't trust an LLM with anything important.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    LLM are good at certain things, especially involving language (unsurprisingly). They're tools. They're not the be-all-end-all like a lot of tech bros proselytize them as, but they are useful if you know their limitations

    If you use them properly, they can be a valuable addition to one's search for information. The problem is that I don't think most users use them properly.

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