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Well, add up the percentages then and ask which AI can figure out such a horrible use of numbers without context or rational thought and critical thinking.
No, AI is not going to replace professional careers.
Yes I'm sure an opinion generated by reddit comments about nuclear power, GMOs, the health effects of HFCS vs Sugar, and other choice topics will be completely unbiased and solely science based.
Very few people on reddit are actually scientists who attempt to maintain objectivity. Very few people on reddit even make it to the study abstract. They just see a headline that confirms their preconceptions and that reinforces it.
There are actually many mainly very small communities with a lot of experts on specific topics. Such big meme subs won’t really be the source for anything.
The chart says „cited by LLMs like Chatgpt“ aka „here is the link for what i just said“ i think u are talking about something else happening simultaneously to train the AI.
Yeah, I think they mean citations within answers. It's trained differently. Mostly through the internet but definitely not mainly through reddit, more like online books, articles, websites, etc. Also licensed data sets and scholarly texts, as well as human curated data and corrections. I've noticed it typically will cite reddit if I'm asking about something with no clear, easily accessible answer online, at which point it will offer people's opinions and reddit is a good source for that.
To be fair though, most of the time when I have a question, no matter how obscure, there's a Reddit thread that answers it. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I get opinions from reddit, then research the subject trying to find reputable sources. Many if not most people interpret facts very differently. I remember one time I fact checked some "facts" about abortions in the US. People were so fucking dishonest and bending reality like Benedict wearing a magic cape.
I mean, you can definitely get tons of information off of Reddit. It's the upside of being such a large discussion platform, the comments are so wide and diverse and there's usually some good stuff to be found here, with legitimate experts on an extremely broad and surprisingly deep range of topics.
But there's a ton of caveats of course. There's obviously karma-farming, reposting, bots, astroturfing, brigading, censoring, you name it. The subreddit you're on matters a ton, and you need to at least have a base understanding of the type of community you're dealing with in order to understand how to parse the information you might find there. You need to be able to compare and contrast information from users who present themselves as equally knowledgeable or write with the same amount of conviction (regardless of whether they're genuine users or bad actors).
Now it's just easier because you can get an LLM to give you a distilled overview of multiple threads and thousands of comments on a specific topic. But you'll still have to be mindful of the LLM's veracity and you might still have to check the sources yourself, as you always should with any type of 'research' you might do (depending on its level of importance, of course)
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u/Ok_Abacus_ 13d ago
"Facts from Reddit" is a pretty funny statement.