But the title had “AI” in it.

Also to answer your question: https://lemvotes.org/post/programming.dev/post/36238264

LLMs, as the name suggests, are language models - not knowledge machines. Answering questions correctly isn’t what they’re designed to do. The fact that they get anything right isn’t because they “know” things, but because they’ve been trained on a lot of correct information. That’s why they come off as more intelligent than they really are. At the end of the day, they were built to generate natural-sounding language - and that’s all. Just because something can speak doesn’t mean it knows what it’s talking about.

I’m just trying to pick your brain and figure out what exactly is good about Lemmy in this case, but you seem reluctant to give me a cohesive answer.

But what’s the good thing? Yeah Lemmy might not be doing it but I can do it, and Elon can, and Zuck, and Putin and your grandmom. Whatever you post on Lemmy is as public as it can get.

Let this be a reminder to anyone with an account with over a thousand comments: time for a new one.

Facebook can figure out all of this about you just from what you like and what links you click. Now imagine what a fucking goldmine a few years of your post history is to a deep learning algorithm – let alone someone who’s been using the same Reddit account for two decades. I bet they know those people better than they know themselves.

How exactly is it a good thing in this particular case? All this information is only more accessible on Lemmy.

No, AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, and this isn’t about automation either. The demand for computer scientists just spiked during the pandemic when everyone was stuck at home on their computers - not so much once it ended.

If you had spent the 20 seconds it took to write this comment to actually start reading the article you’d find out the true reason and that AI is not even mentioned.