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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I just got a notification on my phone telling me that I can chat with my PDF documents. Why the fuck would I want to do that? Do these companies realize that literally no one is asking for this shit? I also saw an ad for a computer mouse that had AI inside it. Whatever that means.

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

I just got a notification on my phone telling me that I can chat with my PDF documents

I belive you got that notification but I honestly have no idea what it even means.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It's from the Adobe Acrobat app. Basically you can ask it to give you a summary of whatever document you're reading.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Oddly enough, that's one of the few functions I've found the LLMs useful for. Looking through big pdfs for specific information, lots of times "ctrl+f" doesn't do the trick because the exact term I'm looking for doesn't appear. Worse sometimes it's a phrase that could be in there under many synonyms. Using the LLM to find the actual info is pretty nice, it just isn't "AI".

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

Don’t knock it too quickly. I thought like you but one evening I was a little tipsy and started chatting with a PDF document. Let’s just say things got a heated and now we’re engaged.