Sadly I have to say this seems right. It’s just easier to ask AI to find the right article on Wikipedia and summarize the thing you’re actually interested in. And most of the time it’s not a life and death situation so even if the AI lies it often doesn’t matter.
If the answer’s accuracy doesn’t matter why even look it up? Just guess. That’s faster and cheaper.
It makes no sense because it’s already incredibly easy to find something on Wikipedia and the first paragraph is always a summary. Humans are only going to get lazier and less intelligent thanks to AI.
My last question to it was:
“What are those berries called 개멀구”
When I googled it, Bing didn’t even find the Wikipedia article, probably because it’s spelled a bit wrong, even though a native Korean wrote it down like this. But the LLM understood what was meant and found the Korean Wikipedia article https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/까마중 took the summary and translated it to English for me.
Better for the people who don’t use it like that.
Often I’m just mildly curious.
That’s a hell of a gamble. What happens when it lies to you about something important (like a life or death situation) that you have no knowledge in? You’d never know since these llms are bullshit artists.
For situations like this you wouldn’t use AI but go to the doctor.
