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โ€œI, a writer, asked the plagiarism machine to copy guides for me.โ€

This is how we ruin the internet. People will stop writing guides.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

don't worry, just wait for the thrilling follow-up article, 'sure, here's an 800 word article in the style of newly redundant gaming journalist Eric Hal Schwarz..."
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

meanwhile, my son asked chatgpt about locations of several items in Elden Ring. All answers were wrong. A great eye opener about the reliability of generative AI.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

If ChatGPT scours the internet for guides and then proceeds to plagiarize said guides, leading to folks no longer writing guides.. What happens when there is no source material for it to plagiarize?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I love these with all the imaginary locations and items, just for they could be plausible.

I do agree #LLM has destroyed the internet, and it was quite broke before with all those sites that was auto translated to other languages of some English languages site and then presented as if it was native for the language it was translated to.

#LLM
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Here's my hot take on the topic of AI competition, based on my personal experience with AI: If you cannot provide equal or more value in your product than a still frequently hallucinating AI where you still have to question every word and make sure the output is actually accurate, maybe you're the issue.

The AI "competition" is good at best, but with just a little bit of efford, you can outperform it usually at everything but the most basic requests.

in reply to Einhornyordle

@Einhornyordle not when the AI โ€œanswerโ€ is shoved into your face as the first thing you see. All youโ€™re doing is belittling the issue.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

You know how annoying it is when you're stuck on something and look it up online, and the solution that you find is frustratingly vague or just apparently wrong, and you're not even sure if it's you or the guide that's the problem?

This would be like that, except for the entire guide.

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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I completely disagree. LLMs can be a useful tool. A tool. They are not the be-all, end-all. As for plagiarism, everything we do is built on what came before. We are all plagiarists. The concept of "IP" is a bullshit concept invented by corporations to control our culture.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

What a delightful way to come up with a guide that's wrong in 18 different ways, mixing up goals in the same game and hallucinating goals and plot points from other unrelated game walkthrus and spiderman movies. Sounds like a great way to end a career while simultaneously pissing off a ton of people. Well played!
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Ten bucks says it's far easier for AI to do his job than make a guide. Another ten says he'll be shocked when management tells him he's no longer needed.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

guides are already a trainwreck on much of the internet, this AI crap will just make it even worse.

If youโ€™re writing a guide, do your research and write for the reader, not just do whatever lets you get it done quicker.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธthe only way chatgpt could possibly create an accurate guide is to plagiarize existing guides

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