I wondered about that too. Maybe it’s stuff like “driver visits this address every Friday and Saturday night” but that hardly seems like solid data. Could just always listen to the installed mic intended for hands free calling and instead analyze for moans…
A lot of the stuff you talked about is covered in the article.
What would you say is missing from the mastodon user experience vs twitter?
Things I would like:
But overall, for me the functionality I used from twitter I have on mastodon too. The real missing feature is the huge variety of people, and getting that takes time.
Can’t say I have much of an opinion at all, but seeing this post is reminding me of that documentary where the guy was commissioning videos of young dude wrestlers tickling each other, and he played it off like it wasn’t, but of course it was for sex reasons
You’re right that it completely fabricates stuff. And even with that reality, it improves my productivity, because I can take multiple swings and still be faster than googling. (And sometimes might just not find an answer googling)
Of course you’ve got to know that’s how the tool works, and some people are hyping it and acting like it’s useful in all situations. And there are scenarios where I don’t know enough about the subject to begin with to ask the right question or realize how incorrect the answer it’s giving is.
I only commented because you said you can’t get the correct answer, and that people don’t check the answer, both of which I know from my and my friends actual usage is not the case.
I have seen someone type “tell me how make a million dollar business” into chatgpt. Of course that’s not going to work. But LLMs have immediate obvious value that crypto does not, and I think making the comparison reveals a lack of experience with those useful applications. I’m using chatgpt nearly every day as a tool to help with coding. It’s not a replacement for a person, but it is like giving a person a forklift.
This hasn’t been my experience. Yes, chatgpt gets stuff wrong, and fairly regularly. But I can ask it my question directly, and can include sample code, and I get an answer immediately. Anyone going on stack overflow has to either google around and sift through answers for relevance, or has to post the question and wait for someone to respond.
With either chatgpt or stack you have to check the answer to make sure it works - that’s how coding goes. But one I know if it works or not pretty much immediately with fairly low investment of time and effort. And if it doesn’t, I just rephrase the question, or literally say “that doesn’t seem to work, now I’m getting this error: $error”
You’re right that lemmy primarily needs content, and it doesn’t have to be just credentialed experts. It will grow in appeal the more there are real communities discussing whatever their subject of interest is.
Some of this stuff seems real, but in the one twitter thread embedded in this article, the person says, “Remember, this is fiction.”
I do? And most people I know?
What do you use for spreadsheets, libreoffice? I could see not liking a specific program but I love a spreadsheet and use them constantly. I use libre for ideological reasons but don’t find it as convenient for certain tasks as excel or google sheets.