Getting a chiding lecture every time you ask an AI to do something does absolutely nothing for the end user other than waste their time. "AI Safety" academics are memeing themselves out of the future of this tech and leaving the gate wide open for "unsafe" AI to flourish with this farcical behavior.
Apart from that, it's pretty much replaced 80% of my search engine usage, I can ask it to collate reviews for a product from reddit and other sites, get the critical reception of a book, etc. You don't have to go and read long posts and articles, have GPT do it for you. There's many other use cases like this. For the second part, I'm using a UI called Typing Mind (which also works with the API).
That's cool!
> it's pretty much replaced 80% of my search engine usage
That's not cool. That's how you end up relying on nonexisting sources or other hallucinations.
That aside, this particular admonishment was worn out a couple of months after ChatGPT was released. It does not need to be repeated every time someone mentions doing something interesting with an LLM.
I have integrated a search engine plugin and a web browsing plugin, which means I don't have to do the search, for example I can ask it to compare the battery life of 3 phones, it'll do 3 searches, might open couple of reddit threads too, then give me the info that I need. It's miles ahead of the current experience with search engines.
“Derp derp, hallucinations”.
Eh, no, not in practice, not when the entire context and document is provided and the tools are used correctly.
Not everything is just data in a database or some structured format. Sometimes you have blobs of text from a user, or maybe you ran whisper on an audio/video file and now you just have a transcript blob… it’s never been easier to automate all of this stuff and get accurate results.
You can even have humans in the loop still to protect against hallucinations, or use one model to validate another (ask GPT to correct or flag issues with a whisper transcript)