This is not just “using the internet,” though. AI use ≠ finding some conspiracy-fueled rant on some long-forgotten message board. ChatGPT does not scour the internet or have any sort of meaningful sanity checks on the pattern of words it generates. It doesn’t “know” what it’s saying, nor does it “care.”
If he had done even the most basic of generic internet searches, he would have discovered the DASH diet.
The inclusion of this goober’s use of AI is yet another example why using what is essentially a reinforcement and pattern-generation engine is one of the dumbest things a person can do. It doesn’t seem to matter how many experts remind people of its limitations, so all that remains is pointing out every time somebody does something stupid, so people can at least get a reminder that the other end of the conversation is dumber than they are and only an illusion of intelligence.
It doesn’t seem to matter how many experts remind people…
But this is not new. People have been drinking bleach and giving themselves cyanide poisoning long before the spread of LLM chatbots. Some dare to call it “doing their own research”
This is not just “using the internet,” though. AI use ≠ finding some conspiracy-fueled rant on some long-forgotten message board. ChatGPT does not scour the internet or have any sort of meaningful sanity checks on the pattern of words it generates. It doesn’t “know” what it’s saying, nor does it “care.”
If he had done even the most basic of generic internet searches, he would have discovered the DASH diet.
The inclusion of this goober’s use of AI is yet another example why using what is essentially a reinforcement and pattern-generation engine is one of the dumbest things a person can do. It doesn’t seem to matter how many experts remind people of its limitations, so all that remains is pointing out every time somebody does something stupid, so people can at least get a reminder that the other end of the conversation is dumber than they are and only an illusion of intelligence.
But this is not new. People have been drinking bleach and giving themselves cyanide poisoning long before the spread of LLM chatbots. Some dare to call it “doing their own research”