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

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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] 4 points 4 hours ago

Absolutely this. I've found AI to be a great tool for nitty-gritty questions concerning some development framework. While googling/duckduckgo'ing, you need to match the documentation pretty specifically when asking about something specific. AI seems to be much better at "understanding" the content and is able to match with the documentation pretty reliably.

For example, I was reading docs up and down at ElasticSearch's website trying to find all possible values for the status field within an aggregated request. Google only lead me to general documentations without the specifics. However, a quick loosely worded question to chatGPT handed me the correct answer as well as a link to the exact spot in the docs where this was specified.