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[bscross32@tweesecake.social]

@falcennial I don't chat conversationally at all with them apart from initial experiments. I do use them for research purposes though.

[finchhaven@sfba.social]

@falcennial

Never

Why?

[adastra1930@mastodon.social]

@falcennial I’m in the small slice that is the very highest usage, and it is primarily work-related (I work in data and analytics technology)

[zygoon@fosstodon.org]

@falcennial all day every day but it's all local.

[maddiem4@raphus.social]

@falcennial I misread this as "LLVM", and I was like "funny way to describe looking at perf-annotated disassembled code, but I do at least a little of that every month." Language models, though, I just don't use.

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@falcennial Unfortunately (and much to my displeasure) my husband still does 🫩

[mira@shark.community]

@falcennial I’ll qualify my answer with “not deliberately or knowingly” since many places have them in customer facing positions

[cannellarogers@livellosegreto.it]

@falcennial what does LLM mean?

[codedude@floss.social]

@falcennial I wouldn't do but I've been forced at my job hahaha but in personal life I avoid them

[codedude@floss.social]

@Cannellarogers @falcennial Large Language Models a.k. AI(marketing term)
It refers to shits like Gemini, chatgpt, claude

[codedude@floss.social]

@leomas @falcennial we are in the same boat

[atlefren@snabelen.no]

@falcennial my claude.md contains "do not use any pronouns to indicate that a human beeing is replying. This is a large language model, used as a glorified autocomplete"

I occasionally end up swearing at the damn thing for beeing utterly useless, but chatting? Never.

[cannellarogers@livellosegreto.it]

@codeDude @falcennial thanks!
In my defence, the answer is: never

[laprice@beige.party]

@falcennial

Voluntarily: not at all

Deceitfully: probably more than once a month.

[webhat@infosec.exchange]

@falcennial I understood that many people might be forced to engage with them on a daily basis, because their company has bought into the hype. The results so far are actually better than I expected

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@falcennial I put not at all because it's the most accurate. I've used one twice ever. Both times I decided to see if I could social engineer (for lack of better words) ChatGPT into claiming to be sentient to see if there was anything to the claims. Both times, I didn't know the full extent of how unethical their development was or that people were being driven to psychosis by their sycophancy. I haven't touched one since early 2024 mostly for those reasons. It didn't feel worth it to keep poking it like that and the push for them to be in everything left an even worse taste in my mouth.

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@falcennial
Not at all for personal use, but all my day job work goes through a chatbot. It's not optional and I haven't found a better job yet.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@dalias @falcennial @Rhodium103 Shit, idk if what I put is accurate then, because there were a few times where the support didn't say it was an LLM but I'm pretty sure in hindsight the website forced me to engage with an LLM

[satuelisa@mastodon.social]

@falcennial for work, often. almost never on my own.

[zjb@mastodon.social]

oh I've been talking to mine almost daily lately, it's become a weird habit tbh. curious to see how the poll turns out!