AI must be stopped...

My gf knows nothing about math. And has to learn a bit. I'm a software engineer so of course I offered to teach her.

Gave her some exercises to do. Because she prefers to do them alone without help. And after 30 minutes she's like "can you help me decipher what chatgpt told me?".

Of course, what chatgpt told her was utter garbage. Bruh, I'm right here and I'm teaching you, just ask me for help, not a word predictor.

I'm actually impressed how bad chatgpt answered, this was low high school level maths/physics. The bot is advertised as if it were going to leave me without a job in the next year.

Your GF secretly works for openAI. You're not teaching her, she's getting you to train chatGPT :O

it only takes a couple times of getting a made-up bullshit answer from chatgpt to learn your lesson of just skip asking chatgpt anything altogether

I stopped using it when I asked who I was and then it said I was a prolific author then proceeded to name various books I absolutely did not write.
- I just read "The Autobiography of QueenHawlSera"!
  Have I been duped?
- Why the fuck would it know who you are?
- and I'm apparently a famous Tiktoker and Youtuber.
But chatgpt always gives such great answers on topics I know nothing at all about!
- Oh yeah, AI can easily replace all the jobs I don't understand too!
- Gell-mann amnesia. Might have to invent a special name for the AI flavour of it.
I was using it to blow through an online math course I'd ultimately decided I didn't need but didn't want to drop. One step of a problem I had it solve involved finding the square root of something; it spat out a number that was kind of close, but functionally unusable. I told it it made a mistake three times and it gave a different number each time. When I finally gave it the right answer and asked, "are you running a calculation or just making up a number" it said that if I logged in, it would use real time calculations. Logged in on a different device, asked the same question, it again made up a number, but when I pointed it out, it corrected itself on the first try. Very janky.
- ChatGPT doesn't actually do calculations. It can generate code that will actually calculate the answer, or provide a formula, but ChatGPT cannot do math.
- So it forced you to ask it many times? Now imagine that you paid for it each time. For the creator then, mission fucking accomplished.
- You need multi-shot prompting when it comes to math. Either the motherfucker gets it right, or you will not be able to course correct it in a lot of cases. When a token is in the context, it's in the context and you're fucked.
  Alternatively you could edit the context, correct the parameters and then run it again.
  On the other side of the shit aisle
  Shoutout to my man Mistral Small 24B who is so insecure, it will talk itself out of correct answers. It's so much like me in not having any self worth or confidence.
I feel like a lot of people in this community underestimate the average person's willingness to trust an AI. Over the past few months, every time I've seen a coworker ask something and search it up, I have never seen them click on a website to view the answer. They'll always take what the AI summary tells them at face value
Which is very scary
My girlfriend gave me a mini heart attack when she told me that my favorite band broke up. Turns out it was chat gpt making shit up, came up with a random name for the final album too.
I've only really found it useful when you provide the source of information/data to your prompt. E.g. say you want to convert one data format to another like table data into JSON
It works very consistently in those types of use cases. Otherwise it's a dice roll.
That's what people get when they ask me questions too but they still bother me all the time so clearly that's not going to work.
Or you could learn to use the tool better and ask better questions. It's pretty decent at some things, absolutely terrible for others.
Asking to explain something like shorting a stock is one of the better uses, since there are tons of relevant posts explaining exactly that.
- Oooooooor, I could use something mostly reliable instead of something that's sketch.
- It's a good tool so long as there are already better ways to get your answer
- Forget trying to say anything positive about LLM or AI. The Lemmyverse downvotes any positive comment related to AI.
- I'm dying laughing at the "NOOOOO AI BAAAAAAD" folks downvoting you for being absolutely correct on how to use the tool properly XD

First they came for my mansplaining and I said nothing...

Can AI open a jar? Can AI kill a spider?

Shorting: Like investing but you can lose more than you put in.

Investing: Theoretically infinite gain, limited loss
Shorting: Limited gain, theoretically infinite loss
Shorting: investing but you take a loan to do it and you bet on things failing.
Shorting: Gambling
- So is a lot of types of investing, so that's really not a good definition, and just like investing if you know what you are doing you can come out way ahead with an almost guarantee with shorting
so just regular investing?
- No.
  With regular investing, you buy an asset (e.g. a share for $10) and sell it later. The most you can lose is that $10.
  With shorting you borrow a share for $10, and sell it. Then you buy it back later and give the share back. The idea being that you buy it back for $8 and you've made $2 profit. But what if the price suddenly rockets up to $100? Now you've lost $90. More than your initial stake.

Shorting: cutting your jeans into shorts

That's jorting. You have bejorted yourself.
- Shorting is when you plug your fork into an electrical outlet.

I would have asked, "And what exactly does ChatGPT think it is?" Because there's a pretty good chance that it made up a definition that is 100% bullshit.

You're wasting computation time by saying please to your boyfriend. Alman said it and he has a boyfriend.

If ai can start pirating old movies then it's curtains for me brotherzz 😞

"Hey Alexa, add Rick and Morty to Sonarr and download the first season for me"
I just like making chit chat with deepseek, that's about it for me and AI.
You got a girlfriend with that skill? You have no idea how much hope you've given me my brother.
- For real, I feel like its part of the reason Ive kept my S/O so long 😭

I had to explain this to my girlfriend, I still have a job

That's when you turn it around and ask her about how to deal with some social situation. Oh nvm, chatgpt gave me a great idea

People do know they could have just googled things and looked at the top results before right? Even with all the enshitification it's gone through it will still usually yield something useful for any topic that isn't super niche. Like if I search "shorting" the top 3 results are articles from Wikipedia, Investorpedia, (don't know enough about it to know if it's reliable) and Charles Schwab, a source with a conflict of interest since they probably sell that service, but they're probably at least going to explain why you'd want to buy it from them, and then as a bonus the 4th result is an ELI5 Reddit thread, which while probably not the most reliable source of info, is probably about on the same level as randomly asking your SO about a topic which they're not an expert in.

Just fyi investorpedia is reliable. Ive personally never found incorrect information there.
Im not so sure id call schwab a conflict of interest exactly. They do provide the service, but financial institutions like that are not allowed to provide investing advice, so they cant upsell strategies like that. All they can do is explain it so that you know what strategy you want to pursue.
- Good to know. Thanks.
I too have wondered about this. I doubt I will ever think to ask a chatbot a thing I would normally just "google" using a search engine. Sifting through search results is a skill/habit honed over 25+ years that just makes more sense to me. I also don't trust AI to answer correctly.
Yeah but people now Google things and look at the AI summary of the top 3 results.

Well our society is falling apart as we barrel towards another great war with the most certainly a expectation that Yankeeland is gonna drop a nuke on a civilian population. There will be conscripts and consequences. Oh yeah let's not forget arresting the homeless and giving them felonies and throwing them into for profit prisons. Lets not forget the hooverviles. But sure you're a top G with your illgotten gains with a currency that is rapidly declining. What a limp dick techchoad dum dumb culture. Drinking from a poisoned well were the bully gets you to punch yourself in your own face and you celebrate this. We celebrate this world of the lowest common denominator. We eat our own. This is a empty vessel of lesser things. A pit of despair... A whoreable land that is hostile to real innovation and creativity. We all are nothing but dildos for the capitalist. It would be better to be closer to the blast zone. The rich have bunkers and we all will starve to death. Capitalism is a death cult and shorting is gambling with your children's future. Only the most idiotic will replicate. This seems now a activity for the most supremely vain, non mathmatical and selfish. Thank gawd all men die.

This is a very intense, and worryingly doomer response to someone vaguely mentioning the concept of short selling
If you could just go outside and talk to some friends, that'd massively improve your situation. Just give small talk to somebody. Somebody real. They'll cheer you up. You could also find a homeless shelter to volunteer at.
I mean, I understand things are awful, with global warming and forced deportations, but this lachrymose screed isn't what life is like. There are countless people all over the world who are creative, kind, and full of hope, and we are merely beset by great problems.