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There's a weird level of brain rot going on with AI. My wife recently had some troubles trying to research who owned our home in the past (it was built in the 1880s); she posted to a local forum asking for some specific information about who & where they were buried and so on and was getting replies from somebody that were seemingly plausible but just had no basis in reality when she looked into it further. After pressing him several times for his sources the guy finally admitted it was ChatGPT.
Just... why the fuck? Why would anybody do that? They wasted not only my wife's time but their own as well, they contributed nothing useful (and if anything, their "contribution" was purely negative).
It's baffling behavior.
At least in that case they could be stupid enough to think ChatGPT magically knows everything (lord knows a lot of people seem to think that) and be genuinely trying to help. I can kind of forgive being incredibly stupid and not realizing it if your intentions are good.
Posting fake bird photos requires making or pretending you made them. Either case is shitty.
Iv actually found Claude of all things can find actual sources buried so deep that even page 3 of Google wouldn't surface them.
With how absolutely fucked search engines have become it's one of the few uses I've found for AI that isn't dog shit
But dear fucking God getting them to actually give you the sources/links and not just try to summarize it or feed you back bullshit is a pita.
Damn things need to be lobotomized and turned into pure tools and stop with this nonsense bullshit of pretending to be human
They make fantastic search assistance tools if you have enough brain cells to run together to ignore the bullshit they spew out and corral them. Like hearding donkeys I swear.
I feel like AI is google search before search engine optimization got figured out.