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Re:I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype by skydhash on Monday April 21, 2025 @08:50AM (#43751425)
Having the wrong information can be more detrimental than having no information at all. In the former case, confident actions will be take. In the latter case, the person will be tentative wich can reduce the area of effect of bad decisions.

Imagine the lambda person confronted with this:

  sudo rm -rf /
What is the better situation, having no understanding of what it does or believing that another action will take place?
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Re:I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype by Nition on Sunday April 27, 2025 @03:56PM (#43814633)
The process I'm suggesting is:

1. You have a complex or vague question that you can't search easily via Google etc

2. You ask the AI and it converts that to concrete searchable suggestions (in this case "sudo rm -rf /")

3. You search "sudo rm -rf /" to check the answer.

Step 3 is designed to (hopefully) catch this kind of problem.

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