Why pay for a search engine

Re:Why pay for a search engine by carlosjobim on Monday October 14, 2024 @01:12PM (#41839568)

Are you talking about the quality of the prose or about the content of writing? An LLM can only act on information that has been put into it by people, while a real person can create new and important information – even a person with low literal or oratory skills.

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Re:Why pay for a search engine by MichaelZuo on Monday October 14, 2024 @03:20PM (#41840908)

Both.

How do you differentiate between say 20 real people with low skills and LLM output lightly edited by a high skilled individual?

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Re:Why pay for a search engine by carlosjobim on Monday October 14, 2024 @03:51PM (#41841192)

If I could differentiate between it, then what the real person wrote or said would still have a separate value, even if the prose was bad.

Consider a normal criminal court case. Most witnesses don't know how to express themselves well neither in the written nor spoken word. Their testimony still holds value and gives important information.

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Re:Why pay for a search engine by MichaelZuo on Monday October 14, 2024 @03:58PM (#41841271)

But you can’t differentiate it… unless you have some method that you can share?

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Re:Why pay for a search engine by carlosjobim on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:23PM (#41841532)

Of course we can separate fact from fiction if we need: By checking up things ourselves. There is only 1 reality and only 1 truth.

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Re:Why pay for a search engine by MichaelZuo on Monday October 14, 2024 @06:40PM (#41842929)

Why wouldn’t the fake output mimic real human output after some light editing?

And it’s not like a live video call, where a few seconds delay would be noticeable.

There would still be a real human being, just as smart as you, behind the LLM, but pretending to be say 20 different lower skilled people.

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Re:Why pay for a search engine by carlosjobim on Monday October 14, 2024 @07:52PM (#41843493)

Yes it would mimic real human output. That's why we have to verify if the subject matter is important. Knowing who to trust or not is not easy, if we have to be sure we have to do some work.

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Re:Why pay for a search engine by MichaelZuo on Monday October 14, 2024 @08:31PM (#41843722)

I still don’t get how this helps you differentiate between them… or do you mean to assume both are genuine human outputs regardless, if the information proves to be genuinely true?

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Re:Why pay for a search engine by carlosjobim on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @09:57AM (#41848669)

If the information proves to be true, what does it matter?

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Re:Why pay for a search engine by MichaelZuo on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @03:32PM (#41852253)

Because your interlocutors would be 20 people that don’t exist… and would take up 20x more of your time than a single low skilled individual.

Yes, even scoundrels may supply to you true information for some period of time but eventually they will try to obtain their actual goals…

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