• discocactus@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      They’re good at things you’re not good at. If you’re good at something, and you see them try to do it, they’re shite.

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      14 days ago

      I keep hearing this but what makes them “good”? Like at the end of the day they’re still just LLMs right? Even if they can generate a perfect picture that no human could tell is AI, so what? What is that skill useful for besides fooling humans into believing something is real that isn’t true?

      Heck- they can’t even set a reminder like natural language processing (Siri) could do fifteen years ago.

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        For instance:

        I asked Claude to help me create a website. IMHO the one it built (with some back and forth) was way better than websites I have paid professionals to build.

        Furthermore, it showed me how to get it hosted for free.

        It created programs that keep it updated that do not involve using Claude.

        I currently have a step where I am involved in the updates, but once I have confidence that it can properly handle edge cases I will have it completely automate the process.

        Siri cannot do that.

        MIT says AI can credibly do undergraduate work

        https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/08/25/ai-can-now-credibly-complete-most-undergraduate-assignments-mit-warns/

        People keep piling into the copium but they should be paying attention.

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          13 days ago

          I think you’re misunderstanding my question, I’m not saying LLMs can’t spit out a website so perfectly convincing that it would be impossible to discern from a human made website.

          I’m asking what makes speeding up the creation of such “slop-sites” useful or desirable to anyone?

          EDIT: Maybe you could sell me on why automating undergraduate work is something interesting or helpful?