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I find them incredibly useful. I use them almost every day.
Yesterday for example, I used it to get information about applying for a visa (I know it needs to be double checked, but it’s a good first step)
I also used it to help me with some work stuff.
you used to be able to get that information directly from a search engine when those hadn't fully enshittified.
Haave other people not been using verbatim mode on search engines when they're researching? "Personalized" search is the biggest problem. You can just hit tools -> all results -> verbatim on Google and you get far better results.
oh they un-broke that? i remember giving up after it didn't do anything for a while
Yeah, you can also just put quotation marks around every word. Unfortunately the + operator is still broken and they don't care to fix it. Effectively not a real change given that it had previously been deliberately disabled.
i haven't seen quotes work in years either
Which is why they are extremely useful.
if you have to do real research and get the info directly (because there's a serious chance it's just making up whatever it's telling you) aren't you just wasting time by asking a model?
They're absolutely wasting time! I bring this up every time AI is discussed on hexbear, but in my job there is a 1:1 hit rate of a client mentioning they used AI and whatever the AI told them being completely wrong. Every single time. Sometimes it's just a little bit wrong, like it might have been right with another company or in another scenario, but often it's just completely absurd.
if it's common knowledge you don't personally have, or you don't personally have in English, it can often be accurate enough or really help you understand better questions to ask or better words to use when asking. Google can really screw you over if you don't have the patience or the right search terms.
I don’t think so. I was asking about requirements for a retirement visa. The country where I live has a really bad site and it’s difficult to navigate. But the model told me about different kinds of long term visas for older people. I only need to double check their requirements for application.
But now I know that there is more than one type.
Since the local government site for this is so bad, there are a lot of third party websites that explain this information, but you still need to double check.
In addition to that. Often times the website and the people at the actual immigration site ask for different things, so no matter what, I’ll have to drive there to ask in person.
3rd would country problems.