Good news, so does ChatGPT lol
Always ask for source
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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That doesn't mean much, sources get hallucinated too
If the point of this is that both are equally trustworthy then I agree.
Well where do you think AI got its info from LOL
I did find it funny one time when I got a solution for a problem from ai at work, and then later found the almost word for word solution in stack overflow. Like this is just a search engine but with higher sea level rise and rainforest clearcutting when you use it!
It is like a search engine that will randomly spit out something correct (a human's work), wrong, or sadly wrong.
With every response to a prompt you get to figure out the relative level of bullshit or propaganda.
Often it is exactly the same as the top stack overflow answer. Sometimes it throws in some extra shit to make it incorrect though, so you have to scroll down and click on the SO link, which is what you would have done before all of this nonsense anyway.
Google also making search worse so people will use their slop machine instead
Um, LLMs were trained on that 11 year old post tho
Yeah, but they were also trained on tons of other incorrect, useless bullshit, so
The point I'm making is that reddit is also shit.
The internet has always been a cesspool of uselessness with a few gold nuggets to find. Some of the best information out there was in those old posts, from Usenet to Reddit, buried in shit.
When search engines actually indexed and crawled without the advertising algorithms you could find stuff. But for the past 6 years reddit has been shit, and search has been shittier longer. Now when you visit reddit you're helping to fund fascists.
So the hallucinating LLMs were trained on garbage, so it's shit on top of shit.
Quite sad
Yup, reddit is a shithole.
I trust AI to be one thing.
wrong.
Except Reddit IS all AI posts now. Dead internet ~~theory~~ realtiy.
from 11 years ago
that's why "from 11 years ago"
True. But is the user accoint from 11 years ago. Or are you comparing an interesting from 11 years ago to AI today.
Lemmy, but yeah, same idea