Do you use GPT-4 (via ChatGPT or through the OpenAI API)?
(Posting this because it's been dawning on me that those of us who are most convinced by the utility of these AI models might be stood alone on our GPT-4 island, while everyone else throws a few moderately sophisticated questions at GPT-3.5 et al, gets obviously wrong results and writes the entire thing off as hype)
I thought it would be interesting to run the same poll on Twitter in order to compare the results
Of the people who follow me and are active and vote in polls... the Mastodon crowd are about three times as likely to not want to use GPT-4, and just under half as likely to have tried it than the Twitter crowd
This more-or-less matches my intuition, which is that Mastodon users are a lot more actively resistant to weird ethically complicated hosted LLMs
To LLMs in general, tbh.
There are some tools that have hidden issues, gotchas or legal issues, and shouldn't be used by people who aren't deeply aware of the drawbacks and limitations.
You are aware of them. I don't see you making assumptions and coming to great harm because you, say, trusted the LLM not to hallucinate entire legal filings. You are in the minority, sadly - I know otherwise sane people who think they can replace actual humans with just a LLM. And its causing harm to those real people.
Until someone comes up with a LLM that can readily tell me "I'm sorry, I don't have the data I need to give you a good, correct answer." - I fear they'll do more harm than good. And i don't see that coming any time soon.
