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 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.

I think it is useful with a constrained dataset. Like using it to summarize things about a dataset, or dumping documents into it and asked getting info about it (like Gemini in Google Drive).

It is not useful for general question using the whole-ass internet as a dataset.

Also I wish it was called something other than AI...it's just a word guesser FFS.

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 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.

Linux girlies are the goats

More like "What is Linux?"

And if you install it often enough you might change from bro to sis /s

If you're in a place where that opinion is unpopular you may not be in the real world.

It's all about how you prepare the meat.

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]

As an example, I recently had someone unironically claim that china has more free speech than france, from a server hosted in france 🤦

If you want to see some non-lemmy tankies, check out https://raddle.me/.

The term came into use for communists who supported the Soviet Union sending in tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, with the commentary being that tankies supported Soviet imperialism over local revolution.

So supporting Palestine over Israel doesn't make someone a tankie, but supporting Russia over Ukraine does.

Saying Trump sucks is only a controversial opinion in america*

*and some other very right-wing countries I suppose

How is censorship a popular opinion on lemmy?? What does lemmy censor??

Other two i agree with.