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College student studying Flaubert and Proust: "This is how I win." (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

i know there are others, but legitimately the only people i meet who are enchanted by LLM/AI chatboxes are in

  • sales
  • marketing
  • management

the trifecta of professional suckers and grifters.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately my brother, an electrical engineer, uses it daily. I've warned him it's gonna make him dumber. Thankfully he uses it for office stuff and not (yet) directly on his work

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Would it not be based on how he uses it? If they are realistic, it will be mostly like a calculator, right?
    Yes, your hand calc speed may decrease a bit because you are not using it all the time, but overall the calculator saves you time and helps you calculate more things.

    Would it not be like that in the hands of folk who need it to have proper results?

    But yes, A lot of regular LLM output seems iffy and superficial.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    The problem is that while a calculator is true and well tested, when it comes to people's lives and massive infrastructure projects, the lying machine lies once and it could cost real lives. Also, the user ends up responsible for those falsehoods. Just not worth the risk. It slowly makes you dumber and out of practice is the best case scenario.

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