AI is untrustworthy and shouldn’t be used
I have management talking about copilot usage rates and I hear people casually refer to “what ChatGPT told them” in conversation
The other day on Reddit someone was saying they just fact checked something with ChatGPT.
AI is untrustworthy and shouldn’t be used
I have a more nuanced take. AI is simultaneously untrustworthy and useful. For many queries, DuckDuckGo and Google are performing considerably worse than they used to, while Perplexity usually yields good results. Perplexity also handles complex queries traditional search engines just can’t.
About a third of the time, Perplexity’s text summary of what it found is inaccurate; it may even say the opposite of what a source does. Reading the sources and evaluating their reliability is no less important than with traditional search, but much of the time I think I wouldn’t have found the same sources that way.
Of course there are other issues with AI, such as power usage and Perplexity in particular being known for aggressive web scraping.
Nuance and depth isn’t as popular as I’d like on or off Lemmy.
I think ddg and Google are performing worse because of AI. Pushing their AI services and the tsunami of AI slop make a search harder than SEO did and deprioritizes fixing it.
Ah, but you see, I never claimed AI isn’t useful. In fact, you can check my comment history. I’ve agreed AI is a very useful tool, I still think it shouldn’t be used for ethical, social, and personal reasons
A problem with nuance is that people want to discuss the specifics and nuances of what they care about but for the most part won’t do that on subjects for other people. So you need to tailor your responses to your audience. FWIW on Lemmy I see a lot more instances of people with specificly opposed takes where both sides have similar vote counts. So while it’s not perfect it’s better than most
I have people telling me how to do my work because “That’s what ChatGPT suggested, and they’re always accurate”.
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Actual AGI would be trustworthy. The current “AI” is just a word salad blender program.
It could be argued that people are AGI. Are they always trustworthy?
Would it? I run a science fiction book club and there’re a lot of arguments that if something achieved human level intelligence that it would immediately try to kill us, not become our perfect servants
I believe in the Grand Plan, and I have faith in The Director. Begone, faction scum.
That was a good show.
As a software developer I fully agree. People bash on it constantly here but the fact is is that it’s required for our jobs now. I just made it through a job hunt and every tech screen I did they not only insisted on me using AI, but they figured how much I was using too.
The fact is is that like it or not it does speed us up, and it is a tool in our toolbelt. You don’t have to trust it 100% or blindly accept what it does, but you do need to be able to use it. Refusing to use it is like refusing to use the designer for WinForms 20 years ago, or refusing to use an IDE at work. You’re going to be at a massive disadvantage to your competing jobseekers who are more than happy to use AI.
The fact is is that like it or not it does speed us up
Fine it speeds me up.
“You should totally install Linux, Bro/Sis”
Linux girlies are the goats
More like “What is Linux?”
If you’re in a place where that opinion is unpopular you may not be in the real world.
I’m pretty sure my friends are real, and none of them are installing Linux any time soon.
It’s just that around my part of the world, not actually doing it is way more common than not thinking you probably should be doing it.
I’ve actually converted multiple family members to Linux, but it does take patience to work with them ensuring they can do everything they currently do
I’ve met a lot of people who don’t agree with “billionaires shouldn’t exist”
[Giancarlo Esposito Meme]
I think billionaires shouldn’t exist because we should have appropriate levels of taxation and a “maximum wage” law.
Lemmy thinks billionaires shouldn’t exist and are setting up guillotines.
We are not the same.
You are the same it’s just that yours only comes after theirs. You can’t get to yours until you do theirs first.
The propaganda is so strong with this one. If you talk to someone who owns just about anything, they somehow imagine you’re coming after them and their stuff if you even mention anything like taxing the rich, much less getting rid of people who own more than some entire counties.
They just worked harder than the rest of us and had good ideas at the right time.
Erm, no, that still doesn’t make their labour worth thousands of times more than the next person.
People I talk to know millionaire workaholics and think that but for some timing that person would be a billionaire because they don’t understand how orders of magnitude work. 100k in the bank vs 1 million is a much smaller barrier than 1 million vs 1 billion never mind 100 billion
I don’t think people would stop at billionaires. They’d keep going until it got uncomfortably close to their own level of wealth, but the people worse off than them wouldn’t stop there, either.
Provided we are talking about taxation not guillotines, it’s that really a problem? In Norway, a doctor doesn’t earn much more than a train ticket seller.
“Why study medicine”, you ask? “Self actualisation.” Is their answer. Remember, University is free in that system, so no student debt.
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Linux
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Communism
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independent social media
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Political assassination
Veganism
Censorship
How is censorship a popular opinion on lemmy?? What does lemmy censor??
Other two i agree with.
I’ve experienced many lemmies calling for the censorship of others, calls for defederation, etc… maybe its just me
I still have no idea what a Tankie is. As far as I can tell it only exists here on Lemmy and I might be one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, social democrats, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.[5][4]
If you want to see some non-lemmy tankies, check out https://raddle.me/.
By skimming the front page I don’t see many tankie-traits. Loads of communism and socialism, sure, but not much tankie stuff. But I’m sure there’s a lot of them in the comments with “interesting” takes on the cultural revolution and the holodomor.
You’re right. It seems to be mostly anarchists and such. There might have been more tankies back in the day, or maybe I just misremembered.
In practice, liberals and anarchists call anyone who defines themselves as a communist a tankie. Liberals will frequently use it for anyone who claims to be any sort of socialist.
liberals don’t use “tankie”, they would just use the term “communist”
They absolutely use tankie.
Maybe sometimes. I don’t think this is generally true. Though I’ve also met tankies who think you’re not a real communist unless you’re a tankie. Are you one of those people?
To me you’re not a tankie unless you consistently apologize for, minimize, or dismiss oppression under so-called socialist countries. There are a decent number of communists who don’t do this but they’re not the majority from what I’ve seen.
I’ve seen liberals call social democrats tankies. It’s been turned into a meaningless term.
A word sometimes being misused doesn’t make it meaningless. Personally, I don’t see this all that often.
But yeah I mean incorrect usage should be criticized when it appears, certainly.
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted for this. I’ve SEEN real tankies, doing odd things like cheering for BRICS to rise up or Russia to defeat NATO in Ukraine because late stage capitalist oligarchy counts as communism if it’s Russian or something, I don’t know?
But the VAST majority of the time I see it used is by neoliberals as an excuse to dismiss literally anyone anywhere on the actual political left out of hand.
neoliberals would not call you a “tankie”, since “communist” is already a deogratory/perjorative term for them.
“Eat the rich.” Appearently people don’t think they are tasty outside of Lemmy.
It’s all about how you prepare the meat.
You can offend 71+ million MAGA morons by saying how much Trump sucks. Hurts their feelings far more than they hurt the feelings of their enemies. The irony.
WSWS.org is a reliable news site.
Fascism is bad
Lol fascism is not a popular opinion.
Reminder that the actual original nazis never had a majority in any democratic elections, its the loud minority that took control by force.
Fascism isn’t a popular opinion
But being against it is unpopular
