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[reallylazybear@mastodon.social]

@falcennial

I really don't use it for anything serious cos I can "see through the ruse" whenever I "talk" to one and I really don't take what it says to me seriously.

Over time tho I learned to separate a part in my brain, kinda like a virtual machine whenever I "talk" to one so once I'm done with it, I totally forget what did I even talk about to the local LLM.

But between choosing an LLM to talk to and not talking to anyone or anything for a month, I'd rather choose not talk to anything

[reallylazybear@mastodon.social]

...cos I lived without friends and LLM's for two years before they popped up around 2022.

I still don't understand why billions of people think of it as like their companion in their life and... eugh... solution to their loneliness. I solve my loneliness by literally doing anything my gut wants me to do.

Sure it's prolly hard for everyone to be alone, I'm just a dumb bear but I haven't had friends for 6 years yet I don't feel like desperately needing for a companion...

[reallylazybear@mastodon.social]

So yeah, even if I talk to a local LLM multiple times per week, I really don't take what it outputs seriously, and if "AI" goes away, I wouldn't lose sleep over it. I'd just yawn and move on.

[shaulaevans@zirk.us]

@jprjr @falcennial I'm in the same boat.

I'm increasingly aware that I have no idea how many "features" of tools and platforms I use every day are driven by AI. I'm trying to learn as fast as I can but it's generally a black box.

I consciously and conscientiously avoid LLMs, and do my best with ongoing education so I can do a better job.

[mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca]

@falcennial I found it useful for writing my nftables.conf file.

[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