I see people using ChatGPT, Bard, etc. to answer questions on mailing list threads. It'll be a long thread of thoughtful human written responses, and then someone will come along and say "I asked Bard what it thought about this issue, here's the response". And then out comes five paragraphs of text that I might as well not even bother reading, as it often contains falsehoods that I have to waste time looking up and double-checking. It bothers me so much that these LLMs don't have any inherent understanding of truth or facts, so the only thing they're really good at is writing fiction (e.g. I hear they're pretty good as a DM's assistant to flesh out flavor/scenario descriptions and such). The Midjourney generated images fall into the same fiction category and are generally pretty good too.
But for actual non-fiction usage, you have to spend so much time triple-checking everything they say to ensure that it isn't simply complete nonsense. What's the point?
But for actual non-fiction usage, you have to spend so much time triple-checking everything they say to ensure that it isn't simply complete nonsense. What's the point?