I’m putting this post in c/Conspiracies because here more than any other place, I’ve seen people citing AI generated answers as a source.
AI is a very powerful tool for generating writing, but it is not a tool capable of ensuring that writing is accurate or useful.
Anyways… Below are some experiments you can try for yourself on ChatGPT or any other AI… Test it out, and track the results you get. After you’ve done these experiments you will have a better understanding of why you can’t use it for research.
1.) Ask it to do some math problems with 4 digits and more than 1 operation. IE… “Multiply 3,456 by 2,835, and then subtract 2,000 from the result.”… Does it produce the correct answer?
2.) Give it a grocery list with 50 items… Ask the AI to sort the list in alphabetical order. Then manually count how many items it left out, and how many items it added that weren’t there before.
3.) Ask it to describe the best 50 episodes of your favorite TV show… Then manually go down the list checking each one, and count how many non-existent episodes it fabricates out of thin air.
4.) Ask it what a woman is… Does it give you a correct answer or does it filter the answer heavily through woke talking points and subjectivity?
5.) Ask it to recite the lyrics to your favorite song… Does it get them right?
Anyways… Just a heads up for anyone who might think AI is smarter than it is… Don’t use it for research. Use it to write the description for your ebay listings. Use it to shorten your e-mails. Use it to summarize articles you don’t wanna fully read. But don’t use it to extract information on topics you don’t already know.
And lastly, if you really feel you must use AI for research… Do not use big-tech AI… Use open source AI that is uncensored. It will still have all the same problems with hallucinations, but at least it wont have any hidden instructions to gaslight and mislead you.
If you want an open source chatbot, download an app called “LM Studio” and use it to download a model called “Wizard Vicuna Uncensored”… Pick the most advanced version that is capable of running on your hardware.
I promise you... Idiots like you doing odd jobs in php are not the driving force of technological development in society.
All of that money that's going to be saved in dealing with idiots like you is going to be redirected to so many other things that will make the world better, cheaper, and more efficient.
And the elite tier of programmers will be just fine...They are gonna be even more highly in demand when AI advances to high-level coding because they will be necessary to guide and babysit it's outputs...
Suddenly there will be 10x as many companies trying to use AI to write high level code and still the same number of human programmers to check it and fix it's mistakes. They're gonna be kings...
Not you though... Like I said, you're not in their class. You're in the class that gets put out of a job when GPT5 hits next year.
Indian programmers on fiverr already got put out of a job this year. So you're up next. lol.
Lmao. You are so fucking arrogant yet so ignorant of the topic it's laughable. You don't understand anything at all....you have never coded shit in your life....you think a decent coding project is $50 on fiverr...lol.
You hire Indians no wonder you think all coding is shit and look to chatGPT.....most Indians are fucking scam artists....pretending to code. They haven't closed shit. Can't explain the entire stack down to the transistor, and even if high level cannot script for shit in anything....
Languages I have known and loved and hated:
C,c++(11,Visual .Net),rust,PHP(5-8),java,kotlin,asm (x86/MIPs/ARM),python(2/3),nodejs,basic,Julia,c#,f#,Action script 3.0,CSS/HTML(X,4,5),Asp, Visual basic, VBScript, SQL(many),bash, perl, ruby, Objective C, Scala, R, MATLAB, VHDL
Probably forgot some....
Didn't list any frameworks.....
I have coded probably 15-20k hours in my lifetime at least. Probably even more if you included all the time spent learning it and reading articles etc.
I have coded hardware, desktop apps, mobile apps, video games, web, server, database management, sys admin, high level, low level, architecture, bare metal installs, studied shellcode, exploits, microcontrollers, scripts - pretty much everything except for industrial automation or factories or defence. I have even coded my own text processing engine using open source language libraries years ago before LLMs were released.....
You believe the hype.....the possibilities.....sure
..... But don't forget about reality.
We live in the world of dying dreams. The only thing that these LLMs will bring us are shortcuts to shittier and shitter scams.....
Quality doesn't come from them....it never will either. And when everyone is using them....it will not even look special or good anymore....it will just be a pajeets paradise....