The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry

Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by trollbridge on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @06:49PM (#45754106)

For an example, AskElectricians recently has been invaded by an LLM which generates authoritative-sounding but 95% accurate electrical advice. It’s worse than useless.

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by hunter2_ on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:30PM (#45754966)

Interesting. To be fair, the same could be said about much of the human activity there (at least as many armchair electricians than licensed ones, who do know a lot, but not everything). Although I suspect the 5% of bad advice is quite different... probably code-compliant but non-functional for the LLM, and functional but not code-compliant for the unlicensed humans.

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by potato3732842 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @07:05PM (#45766451)

>which generates authoritative-sounding but 95% accurate electrical advice. It’s worse than useless

So basically the exact same thing the humans it replaced were doing but without the "I know better than you" attitude" and "call a professional" as a crutch for not knowing things.

They're fine if you need help troubleshooting residential electrical, but so is any old AI

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