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by bugglebeetle 1157 days ago
My extremely technically-challenged mom called me out of the blue to tell me about how she was using ChatGPT at work, which was my “holy shit” moment with LLMs.
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"holy shit" in the sense of "holy shit, soon everything will get polluted by hallucinated but convincingly sounding bullshit"?

LLMs hallucinate so you have to check everything they spit out. But their outputs sound convincing and people are lazy...

I'm curious. If you are willing to talk about it what did she use it for?
She has a learning disability from a TBI she sustained as a kid and has a hard time writing long documents. Most of her work doesn’t involve doing this, but when she does, she can now draft an outline and have ChatGPT help her flesh things out.
That's a terrific use case. I love seeing technology enabling people to do things they weren't able to do before.

Especially if it's technology about which I'm still somewhat sceptical.