Notices by myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win), page 2

@MichaelTBacon @zleap

Am I crazy to think that "providing answers to Quora questions" is a BAD use of a GPT engine? They aren't designed to find correct information they are designed to produce content that looks like correct information. Am I missing something here?

Sometimes I've heard people say "oh that's just the kind of answer I was looking for!"

This could be innocent enough-- but I always think "but what if the most correct answer wasn't what you were looking for?" In particular what if the most correct answer is "No one really knows there isn't enough information." or "In fact, the thing you thought was true probably isn't"

I feel like we are hurtling towards a world where such answers will be unheard of things of the past. That scares me.

This thread is a microcosm of everything annoying about reddit.

Guy posts photo of a spider wondering if it is a "brown recluse" gets a bunch of different answers many repeats, several people calling him stupid for not 'just googling it' a few calls to burn down the house and move.

It's not a brown recluse. Even if it were they aren't aggressive. With a recluse it's fine to move them to a remote location with care.

This spider I would simply escort out the back door.

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatbugisthis/comments/13x2zgh/wife_thinks_all_spiders_are_brown_recluses_but_i/

I think it's nice that people go to expert forums to find out about insects. It would be nice if everyone would read the other replies before adding their own.

It would be nice if taking time to tell someone to "google it" would just die... particularly with how google and other searches have... become much less useful over time.

Oh-- and if I never hear "burn down your house" over an insect for the rest of my life... well that would be a dream.

@MichaelTBacon @zleap

Quora now gives GPT content gumbo answers to questions, and it's blended in with the real human answers. I hate it so much. (labeled, thankfully but what do you think people will make of such labels??)

Not that Quora was ever useful even before this started.

I’ve taken to asking my coworkers if they feel like “search has gotten worse over the years” to my surprise most have said… no.

The only exception was the other CS teacher. How do your friends feel about how well search works? I feel like I used to know where everything was and someone rearranged my house— it’s not really my house of course but yeah.