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@falcennial does “only when it’s the only way to contact customer support” count as “not at all”?
@ShadSterling very good question. forced or coerced usage is a good distinction when asking about these experiences.
I'd defer to the participant's judgement on including or excluding it from poll. (personally I'd exclude it.)
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@falcennial Can one technically chat with an LLM?
@thejessiekirk oh yeah. the full blown AI psychosis cases from doing so are intense.
although I'm sure there are many more non-harmful instances of doing so. it being a normal private activity that the news couldnt and wouldnt report on the way they report on the AI killings and so forth.
but yeah, people do.
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@falcennial So as it happens, I am the On-call Engineer for the core platform team this weekend. The first and only thing I have been trained to do when the pager rings is to log into the system and run a custom shoggoth skill to start responding to the incident. What am I supposed to do if the shoggoth is having an outage? Wing it, that’s pretty much the plan.
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never willing - but some websites will not put you in touch with customer service until you attempt to use their chatbot; which is never actually helpful@Mekachu04 @falcennial Oh... I had forgotten about that. I don't think it counts, because all you're trying to do is get to a human in as few keystrokes as possible.
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The option "Several times a day, but less than an hour" is missing.
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@falcennial I mean, DuckDuckGo was my first stop until recently, but it's even worse at finding things than StartPage which I always end up at, so I just started defaulting to that. And that isn't great at finding stuff either! No boolean operators, and stuff just plain doesn't turn up!
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startpage used to be amazing a few years ago, then they decided to switch to primarily using Bing for some reason.
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@falcennial i use only text LLM to help me with computer science advice, linux (i double check the command it gives). The thing is i struggle a lot even though i'm on linux for 10 years, and i have often weird issue i struggle to find on the net. Feel ashamed at first but hey here we are
Using it sometimes made me open a little the domain
I may be caught using it for anxiety. For example if i have an important thing to buy and i don't want to take the wrong thing. It can help me to calm down and make the right choice. The thing is i always have the feeling that instead i could use social media, but yeah my brain kinda like not to bother people
I don't say it is justified or good. I'm not feeling great telling this. I may reassure myself saying "it's just text, no image analysing etc". But yeah here i am. I try to reduce, i see how it can be attractive
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@jaseg very helpful and clear distinction.
using chat interface to dialogue,
vs using chat interface to do stuff.gaining an appreciation for that distinction.
Thanks I had the same question.
I never do casual chat with it, I only give it ticket at work.
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@falcennial do you include discussions with companies support chatbots?
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@falcennial I use such tech mostly for work but I do not understand folk ‘talking’ to these things. I input questions, like I used to do with Google when it wasn’t full of AI slop and enshittified, but I do not engage in dialogue with an automated sentence guesser and search engine combo.
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@falcennial what's the meaning of "chat" in this case?
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I do it probably a few hours per day during work for images, copy, coding, general questions,.. and then a few times per day at home, depending what I'm doing.
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@falcennial@mastodon.social I get bored, but then I realise that LLMs are even more boring than what I'm bored of. I haven't learnt to just not bother.
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how is chatting with an LLM different from social media, where you select a feed that amplifies what you already think ?
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It's way better: no toxic people, civilized conversation and generally accurate information about most non-specialized stuff.
No chance someone will wish you death because of some banal opinion you might have, no trolling.LLMs are way better than people in that regard.
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@thejessiekirk oh yeah. the full blown AI psychosis cases from doing so are intense.
although I'm sure there are many more non-harmful instances of doing so. it being a normal private activity that the news couldnt and wouldnt report on the way they report on the AI killings and so forth.
but yeah, people do.
@falcennial I'm not so sure. Chatting implies an informal conversation between two or more people, so I think people *believe* they are chatting but aren't really.
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@falcennial
As a non-coder at a well known large software developer, I have a backlog of ideas I want to realise in code. Until AI came along, I had no way to turn aspiration into reality. Now I do! Feedback has been that my ideas are useful (ie not self delusional ideas without actual merit)AI for research summaries useful, and removes the drudgery but should be checked + explicit instructions to explain assumptions & extrapolations.
Generative AI, chatbots no use to me. Don't see the point.
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@falcennial wait, chat or use?
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@falcennial wait, chat or use?
@falcennial I have made a mistake with my answer
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@falcennial I hate how much crap gets generated with it. But then I just give it 6 pages of chats from coworkers on how to optimize the database, tell it to make me a terraform patch for acceptance and production on proposed changes and it just does it. It's such a double edged sword.
@toolsontech @falcennial yup. "Make an analysis of a couple hundred files of source code, find dependency cycles and tell me the most effective way to break them" - it chews on the stuff for an hour while I have lunch, and then spits out a concise document what the best course of action is (or close enough to best, no way to be sure, but 90% is good enough). Instead of me having to pour over code for days before I even make a dent.
But having a chat for entertainment? Nah. Not worth the money, energy spent, etc to get some regurgitated bs the bot found on the webs
