alt Hacker NewsI've had multiple people copy and paste AI conversations and results in GitHub issues, emails, etc., and there are I think a growing number of people who blindly trust the results of any of these models... including the 'results summary' posted at the top of Google search results.
Almost every summary I have read through contains at least one glaring mistake, but if it's something I know nothing about, I could see how easy it would be to just trust it, since 95% of it seems true/accurate.
Trust, but verify is all the more relevant today. Except I would discount the trust, even.
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> but if it's something I know nothing about, I could see how easy it would be to just trust it, since 95% of it seems true/accurate.
> I've had multiple people copy and paste AI conversations and results in GitHub issues, emails, etc., and there are I think a growing number of people who blindly trust the results of any of these models... including the 'results summary' posted at the top of Google search results.
I like the term "echoborg" for these people. I hope it catches on.
"Trust, but verify" is an oxymoron. AI is not to be trusted for information.
We all think ourselves as understanding the tradeoffs of this tech and that we know how to use it responsibly. And we here may be right. But the typical person wants to do the least amount of effort and thinking possible. Our society will evolve to reflect this, it won't be great, and it will affect all of us no matter how personally responsible some of us remain.
prompt> use javascript to convert a unix timestamp to a date in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format using Temporal
answer> Temporal.Instant.fromEpochSeconds(timestamp).toPlainDate()
Trust but verify?
Whenever I use AI in social settings to fact check or do research or get advice, I always trust but verify, but also disclaim it so that people know to trust but verify.
I think this is a good habit to get people into, even in casual conversations. Even if someone didn't directly get their info from AI and got it online, the content could have still been generated by AI. Like you said, the trust part of trust but verify is quickly dwindling.
> I've had multiple people copy and paste AI conversations and results in GitHub issues, emails, etc.,
A growing number of Discords, open source projects, and other spaces where I participate now have explicit rules against copying and pasting ChatGPT content.
When there aren’t rules, many people are quick to discourage LLM copy and paste. “Please don’t do this”.
The LLM copy and paste wall of text that may or may not be accurate is extremely frustrating to everyone else. Some people think they’re being helpful by doing it, but it’s quickly becoming a social faux pas.