I am all for supporting local artists and I feel that “handcrafted in XXX” products make great souvenirs when you’re connected to those places. Still, if some AI hallucinated me a perfect novel for my interests, or generated something I couldnt tell was manufactured or created by a master, I would happily enjoy it.
“How can I tell if this is slop so I can know to hate it” sounds stupid to me: good is good. When it comes to art / food / products, I want the best experience for ME. If I want human connectedness, then I’ll go interact with a human directly.
I can do without wasted water, power, and money, but in the abstract it seems to bother everyone on Lemmy to enjoy something a person didn’t make. I don’t have that hang-up.
You can use these models to learn everything and to be an accelerant for what you can already do, or you can use it to learn nothing and become a dependent vegetable.
I use the crap out of LLMs as a programmer. It can do all the annoying refactors and point out collisions with new features I’m working on, and all I have to do is look at the diff and say “wow that piece there looks like shit and has an input flag for no reason” then go remove it. Or I say here’s a list of things I want to do, what is an order to achieve them that brings the most value in the least amount of time? And it reflects back to me basically what I already value but with the benefit of some context awareness.
Now if you ask it to do your homework or ask it how many raccoons you should be masturbating every day it will of course give you some garbage, but that’s not what it’s for.
yeah. you have enough knowledge as a programmer to see the mistakes it has and fix them. I will say that if you have it fix itself it can sometimes take like ten interations and add more issues so im not to big on it unless it has persistence in learning with my interactions. A non programmer who cannot see the errors. That is a recipe for disaster. So using it to learn things you don’t know how to do and don’t have a background that would allow for correcting it. That is not a good idea.
Eh IDK. I think it is a safe place to start to do some learning, but it’s not an exclusive source. Like you might say you want to learn beginning programming what are 10 core ideas for beginners and one good YouTube/textbook/technical source for each (depending on learning style) and that would be super helpful. The more “explain your work”-capable a question is, the better responses you can get, at least in my experience. Also making this kind of stuff is indirectly my job so I may have some biases.
yeah if you don’t just use it explaining it to you sure. Heck you can even do that but have it give its sources and actually look through the sources. Seeing bad sources can even be educational. Granted there are people who can’t evaluate a source on material they do not know. That is a skill unto itself. I would say you can skip the middle man and just start with youtube videos but now the search is posisoned with a bunch of, ironically, all the ai slop.