• falynns@lemmy.world
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    Ah, the famous “Fox News” defense of claiming you’re an entertainment medium but you should totally trust it.

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    A salesman for an AI consulting company made the comment that we don’t expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI? He was smug about it, too, like it was his big gotcha. Joke’s on him, I’m the one that talked the bosses out of spending money with them.

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      That’s such a bad argument too. The whole point of technology is to help perfect the output of humans. Why would we buy technology that is known to not do that

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        “You can get pretty good results most of the time and save money on labor!” Not like our whole business model is focused on expertise and compliance or anything. Surely our clients won’t mind a few little mistakes here and there, as a treat.

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      we don’t expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI?

      If we can’t expect better from an AI than from a human, why should we use the AI (other than so you don’t have to pay workers)?

      • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world
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        I think there’s an important semantic difference between worse performance and correctness. Tools, like AI, can underperform when compared to humans and still be very useful and worth investing into, but that’s only as long as they perform correctly.

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          Tools, like AI, can underperform when compared to humans and still be very useful and worth investing into, but that’s only as long as they perform correctly.

          Yeah, the ‘but’ is the entire problem. In my experience, LLM chatbots are like if you made a 12yo a junior admin and fed them speed. Very quick to give you a confident answer, but wrong more often than not. The worst part is a lot of what I’m doing is coding, and it gets basic commands and syntax wrong

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    Theo whole OS is garbage. Used to be at least functional, now it’s an ad infested AI slop fest.

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    they probably had Copilot write the new TOS that included this line and since nobody who uses AI reads the final output, nobody caught it.

    they never expected consumers to actually read the TOS.

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      What regulatory capture of the FTC does to MFer.

      All this shit should be considered false advertising, at the very least.

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    Where I live, high ranking bank employees are required to use it for serious use and important advice.

    Twist the reality all you want, copilot manages my whole life.