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In the light of Snowden's latest post: What are your FOSS-AIs? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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His post: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/17400082

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A friend of mine and I have gotten used to using it during our conversations. We do fast fact-checking or find a good first opinion regarding silly topics. We often find it faster than digging through search-engine results and interpreting scattered information. We have used it for thought experiments, intuitive or ELI5 explanations of topics that we don’t really know about, finding peer-reviewed sources for whatever it is that we’re interested in, or asking questions that operationalizing into effective search engine prompts would be harder than asking with natural language. We always always ask for citations and links, so that we can discard hallucinations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thanks for sharing! I'm probably too set in my ways to ever utilize AI for things like this. I never use virtual assistants like Alexa or Google either, as I like to vet and interpret the source of information myself. Having the citations would be handy, but ultimately I'd want to read them myself so the IA/VA just becomes an added step.