• JackbyDev
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    7 hours ago

    For me it’s the idea of focusing at all on telling people not to trust LLMs as opposed to criticizing companies for putting them prominently on the top of the page.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      27 hours ago

      Why not both? Plus, not just trusting LLMs is something any of us can decide to do on our own.

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        4 hours ago

        Because the average person doesn’t even know what an LLM is or what it even stands for and putting a misinformation generator at the top of search pages is irresponsible.

        Like, if something is so unreliable with information that you have to say “don’t trust what this thing says” but you still put it at the top of the page? Come on… It’s like putting a self destruct button in a car and telling people “well the label says not to push it!”

        • @Buddahriffic
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          We don’t control what Google puts on their search page. Ideally, yeah, they wouldn’t be pushing their LLM out to where it’s the first thing to respond to people who don’t understand that it isn’t reliable. But we live in a reality where they did put it on top of their search page and where they likely don’t even care what we think of that. Their interests and everyone else’s don’t necessarily align.

          That comment was advice for people who read it and haven’t yet realized how unreliable it is and has nothing to do with the average person. I’m still confused as to why you have such an issue with it being said at all. Based on what you’ve been saying, I think you’d agree that Google is being either negligent or malicious by doing so. So saying they shouldn’t be trusted seems like common sense, but your first comment acts like it’s just being mean to anyone who has trusted it or something?