As a discipline challenge for when I search something. Do my eyes go up to the sparkle answer? Will I resist if they try to? Would I even expand the prompt? Will I cross-reference?
Sure, if I’m gonna stick around at the article anyway, it might be easy to resist the clanker’s reply, and in bold-highlighted airing dates for Pluribus. That information is also too important to risk getting wrong anyway.
But if it’s just an innocuous activity like foraging mushrooms, I might get weak and just sneak a little peak at sparkle’s advice.

Nothing. ChatGPT is terrible.

I don’t use it.

nothing.

To drink out the waters of the land and darken the skies with the smoke of a thousand burning fires, to conquest and snare the hearts and minds of men until they are but slaves of the machine, thus I become your sole master in the ever burning Earth.

I also check for fun gift ideas.

You shouldn’t

I used to ask it a question here or there if I couldn’t find the answer anywhere else, but I wasn’t too satisfied with what I got. I tried to use it for coding but I kept getting funky answers so I stopped using it for that too.

The last time I used it, I was doing a repair job and asked it a question I essentially knew the answer to because I wanted to verify a step. It gave me an answer that was not only wrong, but legitimately straight up dangerous. I haven’t used it since.

I don’t really use LLMs.

Today at work I was working on someone with something, and we realized our list of tuples was backwards. He was like “oh I’ll have chatgpt fix it”

I was like, [(x[1], x[0]) for x in stuff]. Took about zero seconds. Delegating to the chatbot might have felt impressive if it got it right, but it was also such a trivial task I wouldn’t think to use it.

When I need to come across as someone from marketing or HR. The silliness works out in my favor then

I used it to help me with my hobby projects. I have an idea, and it tells me what parts to buy with what spec (like a 3000 rpm gearmotor, a 1:10 ratio gearbox, a camshaft, etc.) which I have no idea where to even start without it and without mechanical engineering skills.

Nothing. I hate it. It lies about easily found stuff, then is obnoxious and just. Eirgh. I’d rather a human lie to me about things, at least they’re like. Human.

I’m working on something of an article to that effect, but… I also have other things going on, and worry that by the time I’ve hit all the key points and polished 'em up, it will be completely outdated. Obligatory lol.

I guess a couple key points for that general LLM article would be:

• Going in, it’s pretty dang important to understand exactly what a modern LLM is; what it’s strengths and weaknesses are. How they can vary widely in quality and usefulness depending on their engines and platforms you access.
• Just like people who sound extremely sure of themselves, I think it’s geberally helpful to think of LLM’s as highly-opinionated friends who sometimes have the ability to be incredibly incisive and useful on certain matters, but can also be incredibly flawed, even upon very simple stuff.
• Also hugely important based on service involved to get a feel for where they’re most reliable, and where they can be downright disastrous to rely upon.

It’s super helpful for figuring out whom I should block on here. When anybody says something like “I asked shatgpt and…” I immediately know that all of their opinions henceforth are to be discarded without further consideration.

Only interaction I usually have with llms is when my cookies get cleared and my search result has the AI overview thing turned on. It never makes it through to actually presenting a result before I turn it off, though. Hate that shit being on ecosia. Really defeats the purported mission purpose, imo.

I played with a free image generator back when they first came out, found them fairly unimpressive, and moved on.

I’ll wait until they can proc gen vr environments without causing nausea. That’s about the only use I personally have for what presently passes for ai.

Vibe coding silly Python projects.