MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information · Issue #9208 · mdn/yari | MDN now providing LLM generated explainer text for code samples - eviltoast

Seems pretty bad?

  • heartlessevil@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    The “ai explain” button doesn’t mention that it’s in beta even in the expanded detail text. But more importantly, even once out of beta, LLMs will never be trustworthy references without humans vetting them. This isn’t a “beta” problem it’s a “completely misunderstood the problem and solution” problem.

    • key@lemmy.keychat.org
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      1 year ago

      It’s crazy how this technology that does nothing more than automatically generate text similar to text humans would write (or whatever else it’s trained on) has so many people convinced it’s a source of expertise on everything.

      There’s nothing in there with a capacity of reasoning or awareness of fact. It’s the difference between an ALU and a CPU at this point. And a lot of people perfectly aware of that fact are essentially grifting the less savvy masses who see a black box that sounds smart.