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Moving in the right direction (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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[–] 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Sure, you can use an LLM to help you find sources, but at that point you might as well just use a search engine. There are search engines that provide links with actual text from each site rather than potentially hallucinated summaries.

Some popular search engines results are way worst than AI

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Great! Let's add regulation/accountability to search engine results too then, if they're as problematic as this.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    I don't know where you live but in my country people don't go to the medic or hospital for minor things because it cost them money and time. In this scenario limiting access of any sort of medical tool and knowledge sounds like further fueling a corrupted system where power is concentrating in the hands of a few individuals and where people are losing their rights.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Some search engine results are crap, yes. But even the worse search engine (minus AI overviews or whatever) gives you a setup where: (1) each piece of information has an actual source, (2) you know who the source is, and (3) you can make decisions about which information to trust accordingly. If a popular search engine puts a sketchy company’s blog at the top of the SERP, you can actually see that and choose to look father down for something more reliable. Also, if your current search engine keeps failing you, try a different one! There are many options out there that you might find more helpful than today’s Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo.

    Good luck with things, truly. I think you’re going to get hurt eventually if you use LLMs for medical advice, and I genuinely don’t want that for you or anyone. Hopefully this conversation has at least made you a little more skeptical about using LLMs in certain ways.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    Good luck with things, truly. I think you’re going to get hurt eventually if you use LLMs for medical advice, and I genuinely don’t want that for you or anyone. Hopefully this conversation has at least made you a little more skeptical about using LLMs in certain ways.

    Good luck with things too, in case you haven't noticed this meme is from a weird association that doesn't seem to exist and that promotes pseudo scientific content

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