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[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago

These types of errors happen even after including prompts like “Do not hallucinate.”

Genius! Why didn't I think of that!

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In every RAG guide I've seen, the suggested system prompts always tended to include some more dignified variation of "Please for the love of god only and exclusively use the contents of the retrieved text to answer the user's question, I am literally on my knees begging you."

Also, if reddit is any indication, a lot of people actually think that's all it takes and that the hallucination stuff is just people using LLMs wrong. I mean, it would be insane to pour so much money into something so obviously fundamentally flawed, right?

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah that method is clearly flawed. Not enough incense and prayers to the Machine God, no wonder the Machine Spirit is displeased. All praise the machine god of Mars! Praise the Omnissiah!

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 18 points 1 week ago

I've tried screaming "stop overfilling my hboxes" when compiling my TeX document, but it isn't working! Am I prompting it wrong?

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

yes. perhaps try more emotional guilt-tripping?

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 33 points 1 week ago

But Apple Intelligence has its good points. “I find the best thing about Apple intelligence is that since I haven’t enabled it, my phone optimized for onboard AI has incredible battery life,” responded another Bluesky user. [Bluesky]

Y'know, if Apple had simply removed the AI altogether and went with that as a marketing point, people would probably buy more iPhones.

At the bare minimum, AI wouldn't be actively driving people away from buying them.

[-] just2look@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

I am one of those people that would love a better battery, and also that is going to buy a pixel as my next phone instead of an iPhone. If they hadn’t forced AI garbage into the phone, I wouldn’t be planning the change. I know the new pixels also have AI garbage, but they have the advantage of allowing me to wipe the OS completely to install something less maliciously intrusive.

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I run GrapheneOS on my Pixel and I am pretty happy with it. Also, check out OpenBubbles (fork of an app called BlueBubbles) if you have a Mac that you can extract the hardware ID from. I use it to get my iPhone friends to stop complaining (it's an American thing I think) and it's good enough the vast majority of the time.

Reactions still come through as

shitheel reacted 🖕 to 'hi everyone'

though

[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 5 points 1 week ago

Apple doesn't roll it out to EU out of spite for EU regulators slowly regulating their toy into a smartphone. They view it as punishment, imagine that?

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Luigi Mangione shoots himself.

Netanjahu arrested.

Yeah - no AI summaries for me, thanks

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 12 points 1 week ago

@kamenlady @techtakes

Steve Jobs: “And so for me a computer has always been a bicycle of the mind, something that that takes us far beyond our inherent abilities.”

Tim Cook on AI:

"A seatless bicycle for the mind”

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That first one is just next weeks headline.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

“I find the best thing about Apple intelligence is that since I haven’t enabled it, my phone optimized for onboard AI has incredible battery life,” responded another Bluesky user.

The best thing about it is not using it.

[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

The best feature of Apple Intelligence is the “Turn Off Apple Intelligence” button.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Had Apple Intelligence on for about a week before I gave up on it. It literally sucks at everything — text messaging auto-complete, notification summaries, app search suggestions. All just awful.

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