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by acdha 480 days ago
I would also use the axis of how easy it is to tell if it’s wrong. If you ask an LLM for code and you quickly get a syntax error or the wrong result, it’s not going to waste much time or, usually, make you look bad. If you ask it to do some analysis on a topic where you don’t have enough knowledge to tell if it’s right, however, that’s a lot riskier because you get the negative reputation.

This is the big problem with Google’s AI results: before, the wrong answer was from seoscum.com and people would learn to ignore them. Now the wrong answer is given Google’s corporate reputation and also there’s no way to conditionally distrust it so you learn not to trust them for anything.