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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by illiac786 on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @03:45PM (#44184730)
Still not getting it I think.

My point is: LLMs sound very plausible and very confident when they are wrong.

That’s it. And I was just offering a trick to help remembering this, to keep checking their output – nothing else.

Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by criley2 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @08:13AM (#44190866)
Ok, thank you for that point, I responded by pointing out that using LLM's is a skill and that if you get better at it, instead of getting "confidently incorrect" output, you get "well researched accurate output".

This is like a conversation where your entire point is "a hammer can very easily break your thumb" and my point is "a hammer is a versatile tool in skillful hands.

I think it's a normal and rational expansion of a conversation where a newbie to a trade points out a danger, than someone with more experience assuages their fears and teaches them how to do it properly.