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The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] 37 points 7 months ago (2 children)

When I read this crap, all I can think is that yeah backlash is growing because the forced implementation is growing. Another useless sentiment-based article.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Lets use LLMs for things LLMs are useful for. It is not a panacea, and it is not appropriate for every use case

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Yeah, LLMs are interesting tech products to play with and find some niche uses for.

    But for the love of god they are not "prop up the entire stock market and numerous multi-trillion-dollar companies indefinitely" good!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    What is it useful for? I actually have a hard time finding a use for it... Its alright at book recommendations, sometimes.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I found it's useful for code where I know like 70% of what I'm doing. More than that and I can just do it myself. Less than that and I can't trust and diagnose the output.

    I'd rather have old fashioned stack overflow and tutorials, honestly. It's hard to actually learn when it just gives answers.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I use it for coding advice sometimes, as an amateur hobbyist it's really useful to point me in the right direction when facing problems I'm unfamiliar with. I often end up reinventing the proverbial wheel, just worse, but LLMs can help point out standards and best practices that I, as an outsider to the industry, am unaware of.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    You have to be careful at low skill/knowledge levels, because it'll happily send you down a crazy path that looks legitimate.

    I asked it how to do something in oracle SQL, because I don't know oracle specifically, and it gave me a terrible answer. I suspected it wasn't right so I asked a coworker who's an old hand at Oracle, and he was like "no that's terrible. Here's a much simpler way"

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    github copilot is fantastic for exactly this reason… completes a few lines, auto corrects, automatic find and replace, automatically fills a 3 line function body that would otherwise be an extra dependency

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Movie recommendations is my biggest thing, personally.

    And lots of other purposes. Just because a ton of people are misusing this tool and treating it like GAI doesn't mean that it isn't a useful tool. Even something as simple as proofreading a letter has massive utility for some people.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Definitely proof reading. Especially for people who can barely write intelligibly. They can check themselves if the meaning is still correct and they will learn grammar from the process.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I just got the notification today when opening Office programs that copilot was there

    all the help threads about how to turn it off have out of date info. seems like you can no longer disable it in Excel/Word/PowerPoint

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The disabling process is kinda convoluted.

    1. Delete word
    2. Install libre office
    3. ???
    4. Profit!
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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    This is one reason I'm so glad we devs can install linux at work. I have LibreOffice installed sure, but if I need to use the Microsoft Office suite for some reason, it all works great as webpages in librewolf!

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