I'm losing braincells relying on Google Search shoving ad riddled trash in my face and even worse AI results. Gemini frequently just straight up lies to me. Saying the opposite of the truth so frequently I have experienced negative consequences in real life believing it.
The only people who are being homogenized or "down-graded" by Chat GPT are people who wouldn't have sought other sophisticated strategies in the first place, and those who understand that Chat GPT is a tool and understand how it works, and it's context, can utilize it efficiently with great positive effect.
Obviously Chat GPT is not perfect but it doesn't need to be perfect to be useful. For a search user, Google Search has not been effective for so long it's unbelievable people still use it. That is, if you believe search should be a helpful tool with utility and not a product made to generate maximum revenue at the cost of search experience.
Would you say that people were losing braincells using google in 2010 to look up an animal fact instead of going to a library and opening an encyclopedia?
I'm pretty sure they meant LLMs in general, not just ChatGPT. They all straight up lie to very similar degrees, no contest there.
> The only people who are being homogenized or "down-graded" by Chat GPT are people who wouldn't have sought other sophisticated strategies in the first place, and those who understand that Chat GPT is a tool and understand how it works, and it's context, can utilize it efficiently with great positive effect.
I know for a fact that this isn't true. I have a friend who was really smart, probably used to have an IQ of 120 and he would agree with all of this. But a few of us are noticing that he's essentially being lobotomized by LLMs and we've been trying to warn him but he just doesn't see it, he's under the impression that "he's using LLMs efficiently with great positive effect".
In reality his intellectual capabilities (which I used to really respect) have withered and he gets strangely argumentative about really basic concepts that he's absolutely wrong about. It seems like he won't accept it as true until an LLM says so. We used to laugh at those people together because this could never happen to us, so don't think that it can never happen to you.
Word of advice for anyone reading this: If multiple people in your life suddenly start warning you that your LLM interactions seem to be becoming a problem for one reason or another, make the best possible effort to hear them out and take them seriously. I know it probably sounds absurd from your point of view, but that's simply a flaw in our own perception of ourselves, we don't see ourselves objectively, we don't realize when we've changed.
If you are talking about an adult I don't believe you lol
And if it is true... it is not a common experience and would have external factors contributing to this behavior.
Additionally, using IQ to qualify someone's intelligence is a signal, so I'll just not go into it deeper since we will disagree as I find your anecdote juvenile, straight up exaggeration, or a complete lie to serve your opinion.
Plausibly this could happen if you had the ego of a 16 year old or were socially disabled, and it would be alleviated over time through experience. I'm not trying to be rude but you sound like a Tiktok conspirator and I'm old enough and experienced enough to smell bullshit.
I didn't say it was common, I said it's possible because I've seen it with my own eyes. He's over 30, I've known him for over 15 years and we've occasionally collaborated on software projects.
I have a really good idea of his "abilities" and we've been in contact regularly all these years which is why I can pinpoint when this all started. I even talked to a few of our common friends about it because I'm worried about his well-being and they agreed that there's been a pretty dramatic shift in his abilities and demeanour.
> using IQ to qualify someone's intelligence is a signal
You're way off base. Believe me I know that IQ as such isn't a great way of measuring and especially comparing intelligence between cultures, but I was comparing him against himself.
In other words, he used to be really smart and had above-average critical thinking skills. Now he's seemingly incapable of critically engaging with new technical ideas or reason about their implications. He just refuses to engage with anything that is mentally demanding.
> I'm not trying to be rude [...] and I'm old enough
You should probably put more effort into the "trying not to" part. Your entire response is "straight up" a rude dismissal accusing me of being a "juvenile" "TikTok" liar at every step, "lol".
Sure you could end up with occasional misinformation, but the speed at which you can get information more than makes up for it.
Niche topics that would otherwise take hours or days to pull together and summar ise obscure sources takes minutes with LLMs.
