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Meta says you can’t turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram (globalnews.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

LLMs are very useful for synthesizing information, e.g. sumamrizing long texts. Yet every company is actually pushing to use it to create more text, which as you say is at least partly nonsense.

It shows against the difference of what users need (quick access to accurate information) vs what these companies eant for us (glue your eyeballs to the screen for the longest possible time by e.g. overwhelming you with information, regardless of the quality)

[–] loonsun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Well it can be great at making text too, but the usecase has to be very good. Right now lots of companies in the B2B space are using LLMs as a middle layer to chat bots and navigation systems to enhance how they function. They are also being used to create unique lists and inputs for certain systems. However on the consumer side the usecase is pretty mixed with a lot of big companies just muddying their offerings instead of bringing any real value.