• aim4harmony@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 days

      This is probably relative. A lot of people (smarter and not so smart) got hooked on it because of how accessible and convient it is to just ask AI any question and get it spit an answer in seconds. However, there does seem to be a catch - after some time you feel emptiness / void because of how hollow it is. You don’t seem to need to do a research anymore and critically evaluate the options.

      • LettyWhiterock@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 days

        Tbh anyone who asks Ai questions and then doesn’t fact check it was never smart. And if you have to fact check it, why not just do the research to begin with and skip the middleman?

        • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
          9 days

          Trying to prove this point to myself and others, I asked Claude to tell me how to add a drain line for a robot vacuum to the wash room sink.

          Claude told me to drill a hole into the trap arm and add the line there. Which would, in case you’re not aware, be the worst place to put it. You never do this.

          Drain lines get added to the tail pipe coming down from the sink, because if you add it to the trap arm (from the p-trap to the wall) you bypass the water seal keeping sewer gasses from infiltrating your home.

      • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
        10 days

        Well there’s also the stupidity of not being able to figure out how to remove the “watermarks” from the generated text…

        • LilBobbyTables@lemmy.todayEnglish
          10 days

          I’m assuming you think the watermarks are just some hidden characters or something that you can see or remove by pasting into notepad?

  • Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish
    10 days

    It should be watermarked. Credit for answers should go to what generated the answers. If it’s not you, well, now it’s not so easy to be a lying sack of shit.

    • nibbler@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      10 days

      Credit who provided the info in the first place, not the ‘ai’ that spat it out.

    • bonesawmcl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 days

      Even more! In the EU it has to be marked/identified as AI generated, if you publish it anywhere (not that it’s enforced much yet, but competitors might/will sue if it’s used in a company setting). I think this should be adopted world wide (although fat chance, I know)…

    • shartgargle@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10 days

      Oh shit, Claude has enough credits to graduate with tens of thousands of degrees from hundreds of universities? All around a C-B average, weird.

  • fluxx@mander.xyzEnglish
    10 days

    This won’t work - you can always use a dumber, open model to rephrase and remove the watermark. All this does is marketing for anthropic, which I see most people are buying. Gives you a false impression you will easily be able to figure out if it’s done by AI, which it is not. Liars are still gonna lie, cheaters still gonna cheat.

    • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 days

      Sure, but they need the watermarking to later claim the copyright on the stuff that people do create in the open with their agents.

      “They would never do that!”

      “And even if they did, I would sue them, and then the justice system would…”

      “uh… uh oh”

      • fluxx@mander.xyzEnglish
        10 days

        My tinfoil head tells me they don’t want to ingest their own slop for training. But this only helps them if others do the same. Data poisoning is a real problem for llm future.

  • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 days

    Using the ai to help find the answers… ok. Using the ai to provide the answers… not ok. You still have to pull up the references or links it gives you and do the research.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 days

      Using the ai to help find the answers…

      I think this is one of many reasons why search engines became so bad so that using AI could be promoted instead. I have turned to using AI for searching because of it.

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
        10 days

        Absolutely. You use soemthing like startpage or dogpile and it’s night and fucking day to anything that uses google or google services. Yes i include ddg.

      • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
        10 days

        I turned to it 2022ish, bingai at the time was the best for finding sources, google was already rough because of promotion and seo shenanigans

    • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 days

      except that those links are increasingly pointing to slop content anyway. Even scientific papers.

      • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10 days

        On you to learn how to do good dd and weed out the seo slop, ai and/or human made

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    10 days

    Then don’t fucking use it you dumb lazy shit and use whatever little grey matter you have left.

    • edwardbear@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 days

      That’s the issue. It’s someone else’s fault, always. It requires a substantial amount of grey matter to accept personal responsibility, e.g. “I fucked up”. It was me, who made a mistake. When we make a mistake we downgrade to our lowest, most childish behavior, to deceive, lie and cheat, just so we are not in trouble.

      Some people never ever ever ask the question to themselves “Did my actions cause harm to another?”. Their self-importance is too great for that. The maximum I can ever hope for, with the current state of humanity is, they’ll think about it, but throw in a nice excuse. Usually “But I was stressed/busy/angry when I did it”. And that makes it okay.

      So, sadly, it requires a lot of grey matter to not use it. Mainly because of humankind’s inability to accept personal responsibility, not because a clanker contains some unobtainable information.

  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10 days

    i find it funny how some users tried to argue that they did most of the work. it doesnt matter if you did most of the work, everyone as students were supposed to learn to cite your sources. even if you just used claude to reorganize info, theres no reason why you would be against watermarking it unless you wanted to hide the fact you used claude.

  • anewfox@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9 days

    all of them are just admitting that they’re embarrassed about using AI instead of their own brains. of course, they don’t know that because claude never told them.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10 days

    While I can appreciate that it’s not a good thing to let AI do your work for you (not just laziness but hallucinations), I can see this is only going to encourage cheaters to use competitors to Claude.

    Like Deepseek.

  • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8 days

    Would copying it in a text file not work? I mean Christ they are already skipping out on all the work they can’t even copy it?

    Its like asking the kid in class to copy his homework and then handing him a pencil and paper so he can copy it for you

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      8 days

      Would copying it in a text file not work?

      Because doing that doesn’t change the contents of the text so the “watermark” is still there.