Like most of you, I used reddit as solely my only source for finding information. Looking to hear your guys’ thoughts on this topic, and hopefully explain and share some knowledge in a more sophisticated manner than I can describe. (also, I hope this is an appropriate place to post?)

I have ran into this discussion a few times across the fediverse, but I can’t for the life of my find those threads and comments lol

I believe that a non-corporate owned platform with user-generated information is most optimal, like wikipedia. I don’t know the technicalities, but I feel like AI can’t replace answers from human experiences - humans who are enthusiasts and care about helping each other and not making money. This is one of those things where I feel like I know the “best” way to find information, but I don’t know the deep answers of why, and what makes the other platforms worse (aside from the obvious ads, bloatware, and corporate greed)

I don’t know much about this topic, but I’m curious if you guys have actual real answers! Thread-based services like this and stack overflow (?) vs chatgpt vs bing vs google, etc.

EDIT: Wow, all your responses are fantastic. I’m not very knowledgeable about the subject so I can’t really continue everyone’s responses with a discussion, but I love and appreciate the insight in this thread! But I’ll try to think of some follow up questions :)

  • Lvxferre
    3·
    1 year ago

    I hate it. And I’d still hate it even if the AI passes the Turing test with flying colours, and demonstrates itself as knowledgeable and smart as a human specialist in the relevant field.

    I don’t want over-simplistic answers. I want to understand the deep reasoning behind them. Because sometimes a tiny detail might change that “yes” into “no”, and I want to use it to my own benefit. But at the same time, I don’t want to be explained things that I already know.

    The solution for me is not a single answer. It’s a half dozen walls of text, written in a way that I can skip info that I already know and look straight into the info that I don’t. So for me a search engine works the best when it gives me relevant links, not when it tells me “here’s your answer”.