Just heard this today - co worker used an LLM to find him some shoes that fit. Basically prompted it to find specific shoes that fit wider/narrower feet and it just scraped reviews and told him what to get. I guess it worked perfectly for him.
I hate this sort of thing - however this is why normies love LLM’s. It’s going to be the new way every single person uses the internet. Hell, on a new win 11 install the first thing that comes up is copilot saying “hey use me i’m better than google!!”
Frustrating.
I’m a student, I’ve strictly removed myself from this fucked up story. I’ll be it, in my CS class with about 125 student, I’ll say 87℅ of them use chatGPT, probably even more. It’s easy to see that almost everyone in the class cheats, I spend about 5 days on a project or lab, they spend only 1 day. Its not that they’re good at CS, this is after all an “introductory” CS class, and at the moment were learning data structures. Everyone hates data structures, and the people I talked to said “yea I spent a day on the linked list lab and got 100” it is so rare for me to get a 100 in this class, and I spent 5 days on that lab.
I’ve completely removed myself from using chatGPT and other LLM’s. for fuck sake, I’m using a query based search engine called marginalia search, because even the internet has been fucked with unreliable information.
I love it because now I don’t have everything at my fingertips, I do have a few things with the search engine, but you have to conserve the words that you use and not everything will pop up. For example, You can’t just search “how to concatinate numbers in c++” you need to say “string concatenation c++” since you’re using too many keywords
Because of this, I’ve started checking out library books from my university, and what’s so funny is that the books I checkout aren’t due for months in advance because no one checks out books anymore. I got a book on C/C++ reference guide and it isn’t due till January of next year.
You are my spirit animal. Id hire you just based on this comment.