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What is the legitimate use-case for generative AI? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I promise this question is asked in good faith. I do not currently see the point of generative AI and I want to understand why there's hype. There are ethical concerns but we'll ignore ethics for the question.

In creative works like writing or art, it feels soulless and poor quality. In programming at best it's a shortcut to avoid deeper learning, at worst it spits out garbage code that you spend more time debugging than if you had just written it by yourself.

When I see AI ads directed towards individuals the selling point is convenience. But I would feel robbed of the human experience using AI in place of human interaction.

So what's the point of it all?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I sorta disagree though, based on my experience with llms.

The email it generates will need to be read carefully and probably edited to make sure it conveys your point accurately. Especially if it's related to something as serious as insurance.

If you already have to specifically create the prompt, then scrutinize and edit the output, you might as well have just written the damn email yourself.

It seems only useful to write slop that doesn't matter that only gets consumed by other machines and dutifully logged away in a slop container.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago

It does sort of solve the 'blank page problem' though IMO. It sometimes takes me ages to start something like a boring insurance letter because I open up LibreOffice and the blank page just makes me want to give up. If I have AI just fart out a letter and then I start to edit it, I'm already mid-project so it actually does save me some time in that way.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago

For us who are bad at writing though that's exactly why we use it. I'm bad with greetings, structure, things that people expect and I've had people get offended at my emails because they come off as rude. I don't notice those things. For that llms have been a godsend. Yes, I of course have to validate it, but it conveys the message I'm trying to usually