but what “books” are it “remembering” when it gives that answer?
What would be a better way to phrase this?
It should be “is it”, not “are it”.
This person needs to do text-wrap: wrap on everything
I’m definitely bookmarking this one.
But Claude said…
Grok said don’t trust those losers
This might be useful.
Site would not load for me, but this archive works: https://web.archive.org/web/20251030004451/https://stopcitingai.com/
Immediately bookmarked it. Way better than my current approaches:
- if I care about the person, I mention a few experiences with LLMs: how ChatGPT constantly invents RimWorld mods that don’t exist, how Bard (now Gemini) told me potatoes are active and oranges are passive (because potatoes can roll and need to react to their environment), etc. Or internet lore, like “eat a rock per day” and “put glue on pizza”.
- if I don’t care about the person*, I superficially agree with them. Then I mark them mentally as “braindead trash” and consider avoiding them as much as possible - because this is a symptom of worse character flaws, like being gullible.
Small note:
What kinds of things might they be good at? // Summarize this for me
Kinda. It doesn’t really summarise texts; it picks chunks of them together. Sometimes changing meaning.
In this aspect, LLMs are only good if you wouldn’t otherwise read the text in question, or if you’re looking for a specific topic.
Note the pattern behind the other examples: things where there’s no harm if it’s wrong, because you’re checking it anyway.
*EDIT: relevant to note that by default, I care about people. Until they give me signs I shouldn’t.
I think the summarisation of video meetings is where LLMs may actually find a reasonable use.
A friend who is very considered and I would call very smart feels that is a very useful feature in his job at an accounting firm. Especially with clients involved
When it comes to video my guess is that the main part isn’t even the shortening / “summary”, but the transcription. Specially in your friend’s case - given they’re likely dealing with the same set of contextually similar situations (client makes new request, client complains about something, etc.), and people can be really bad at conveying what they want when speaking. (Including me.)
