Google is the latest California-based tech giant to make a major donation to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, which will take place on Jan. 20, or Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      12 hours ago

      Hey, at least some people are citing their sources.

      How often do people say stuff like that without telling others where it came from? It’s easy enough to accept things as true if they sound reasonable. Having a source means that grain of salt is already there.

      • snooggums@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        15
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        12 hours ago

        Giving a LLM as a source is like giving your hair dresser as a source for things not related to hair dressing, because LLMs are trained on random people’s online posts mixed in with actual knowledgeable people’s posts.

        Saying they got info from a LLM makes them less credible that someone who might actually know what they are talking about. They basically admit they don’t have the ability to think for themselves and are just trying to promote using LLMs.

        • otp@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          38 minutes ago

          I think a lot of people are missing the point, but the commenter that replied to you got it.

          What I’m saying is that many people are happy to BS and repeat things that they’ve read or heard as if it were fact. Meanwhile they did get it from their hairdresser. But because they repeated it with confidence, someone else would then repeat it because they read it on the internet from someone who seems to know what they’re talking about.

          The cycle continues.

          But if people say “I heard from my hairdresser/LLM”, then people know to take it with a grain of salt, or will call someone out on it.

          I’m not saying the LLM is a good source, nor am I saying it’s good when someone uses one as a source. I’m saying it’s good when someone mentions that an LLM is their source for something they’re saying.