can't beat the classics

- That's exactly what I was thinking. And this is actually the first time I've heard of some use of LLMs that I may actually be interested in.
  
  Yea the anti-AI crowd on Lemmy tends to misplace their anger on all AI when a lot of their anger should be directed to the corporate BS shoving it everywhere and anywhere to make a profit and line go up
  
  LLM has its uses if you arent relying too much on it or trusting it to give true information
- I can't trust book marks I just use open tabs if I want to keep track of info, that's why I have 75 tabs open most of the time
  
  Finding the setting that stopped tabs from being reset every time I closed my browser changed my life. I just don't if it was a positive or negative change yet
  
  Are you me? I have hundreds open at any given moment lmao
- i use gpt4all and a markdown list of notes for it to sort through. kind of works, but need to tinker the application more because it's fun lol
- Manually reading through is going to teach you more and give more context than a txt parser’s summary.
  Just use your brain and don’t outsource your thinking.
  
  Hah. Yeah, I'll do that as soon as you invent a way to freeze time.
  For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure it's less energy efficient to run a local open source LLM than to offload the task to a data center, but the flexibility and privacy are too big of a deal to ignore.
  In any case chatbots suck at finding accurate information reliably, but they are actually pretty good at reaching things you already know or can verify at a glance with suprisingly little information. The fact that a piece of tech is being misused often doesn't mean it's useless. This simplistic black-and-white stuff is so dumb and social media is so full of it. Speaking of often misused technology, I suppose.
  
  To pull this off I'd need everything in audio form
  
  Depends on what knowledge we are talking about. Personally, I'd be feeding it tons of manuals so that I could ask questions like "Which version of software x introduced feature y?" There's no extra context I need, I just need a version number to give to a customer. And in my industry, that type of info just doesn't show up on Google. So having an LLM that can answer the question in seconds saves me an hour of sifting through manuals.
  
  LMAO yea using an LLM to dig through things to find what I need faster so that I can read further on the non-summarized version for more depth is "outsourcing my thinking" 🙄
  
  Not true in all cases, yes if you want to read a novel you will enjoy reading it way more than reading a computer generated summary. But if you want to source information it's a whole other story. Also, you still need to use your brain to understand summaries

Not to be that guy, but if there's a fictional character that made a career out of prompt engineering a surprisingly flaky AI it's Geordi La Forge. The guy hasn't given the hand to a "Computer!" interaction in his life.
He literally fed his notes to a chatbot to make a custom assistant and then dated the custom assistant.
- Meanwhile, in the dark ages...
  
  How quaint!
- Geordi totally has a Leah Brahms Replika bot.
- Isn't the first guy to fool around with his assistant though
  
  Not even the first guy to incel his way to an extremely inaccurate AI virtual girlfriend chatbot based on an inaccessible married celebrity.
  Just saying, Geordi is NOT the face you want to use for warnings about ethical generative AI usage.