walnut 🌱 (@walnut)

myrmepropagandist @futurebird@sauropods.win

8mo

When "google" became a verb the company celebrated it as a symbol of their market dominance. I think even those of us who are skeptical about LLMs need to recognize that the general public is increasingly turning to LLMs in the same way they turned to search.

"I'll ask chat GPT" is something I hear often. I wince every single time I hear it.

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(This is a discussion of how people relate to technology not a request for software recommendations or technical solutions.)

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Caden @tarix29@tech.lgbt

8mo

@futurebird I know someone who just says "I'll ask Chat". The first time I didn't know what she meant but then she pulled out her phone and started typing.

I think the thing that really bugs me is it seems like (some) people are so much quicker to reach for it, even in social situations. With search engines, at least in my experience, people tend to talk about something they don't know a bit before they "give up" and do a search. But with LLMs I've known people who will ask a question, barely wait for an answer, then type it into the LLM. Someone I knew used to ask me something, wait for me to give my answer, then not respond and immediately type into an LLM

Then again maybe it's just that the people that used to use search engines this way are just more likely to use LLMs now, so that's why I notice this

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walnut 🌱 @walnut@thesoftestpaws.net

8mo

@tarix29 @futurebird
my disappointment when "chat" wasn't a group chat full of people with weirdly specific interests and niche trivia

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