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YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

The fact that people think LLMs should be trusted as a starting point is heartbreaking to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    But why? If you try to be objective, how is this any different from an op Ed or other published article? Those are good starting points as well, but also shouldn’t be published as your work or trusted as is.

    The problem with LLMs is not when people use them as a tool, but when they use inappropriately, blindly trust them or treat them as a final result instead of thinking, reviewing, or adding value.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    An article has context. Who published it? What else has the author written? Llm articles strip that all out.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago*

    I can’t speak for all LLMs but the ones I use

    • web based LLM cites its sources. You can just click
    • coding LLM tends to have obvious sources (for example if I tell it to use a vendor API to do something, I know there's API documentation as the source of truth and the script is just like the example I would previously have found on StackOverflow.com).

    And yes, I frequently check its work and iterate through telling it to

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