Unpopular Opinion

LLM is just a slow way to do things that have better ways to do them.

Or to have an expensive autocorrect do your thinking.

Upvoted. It’s utterly useless.

LLMs are by far the best way to retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct).

What is the point in retrieving information if it isn’t correct?

Upvoted for absolutely horrendous take.

retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct).

Perhaps I'm just one of "the olds" who doesn't get modern technology, and this is why I'm having a real difficult time imagining why I, or anyone, would ever spend time looking something up when the factual correctness is optional to begin with.

upvoting because this is a good unpopular opinion.

unfortunately, microsoft is about ten years too early to the party, like they always are. what they offer isnt very reliable either, in my opinion

1. No it's not

2. No it won't. Not even becsuse it's shit, but becsuse it's Microsoft's and they sure as fuck aren't gonna put it in any OS other than Windows.

3. It has not been added to every phone and isn't even 10 fucking years old. It's barely existed for 2.

Are you just using "Copilot," a specific brand of generative AI assistant program like the way a parent would call all video games "Nintendo?"

Sometimes I wonder if people come here and derive ludicrous drivel for the explicit purpose of posting here.

This is one of those times.

I'm not here to upvote, downvote, or argue, but I do not use this feature, desktop, mobile or otherwise, I don't even use the web pages like an ancient Internet user, LLMs only provide productivity when you already know what you're doing and you're basically guiding a toddler through a laser field, using the chat features for anything besides coming up with clever names you might name your next dog is basically never going to increase your productivity.

I am so confused as to how the majority of people view this community.

This post right now shows -12 vote count. So does that mean this is a popular opinion..? Or do the majority of people not know how this works?

The fuck it is. People will make uninstallers or blockers.

I disagree with your overall opinion for various reasons (relying on AI erodes researching and critical thinking skills; Copilot is dangerously unreliable in the majority of use cases); it is invasive to the point that it's creating a user backlash; there's are many serious social/emotional issues that are surfacing because of AI over-use; etc etc).

But I respect that you have shared a genuinely unpopular opinion here (in the right community). And you put your arguments forward in a well-worded and coherent way. So kudos.

ETA: I don't think it's appropriate to personally insult OP because of this post, as a small number of people here are doing. C'mon people, look at the community we are in and don't resort to such insults. This is a great topic for legit discussion.

since its been integrated in every mobile phone for the past 10 years.

We just found out the person who makes job announcements asking for more years of experience with a technology than the technology's years in existence

every phone

Not every one. I have GrapheneOS on the phone. And Linux on the computer. Like some nerds here. And there hasn't been any assistant popping up on mine...
Also don't think whether that's going to be built into any major operating system is much of an opinion. That's more a fact 😉

But yeah, whether that's useful... I've read all kinds of opinions on that. I think we need more factual data on user efficiency. I'm positive we'll get some more studies on that.

LLMs are by far the best way to retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct)

We already have proof that this is a popular feature for users since its been integrated in every mobile phone for the past 10 years.

you've obviously retrieved your thinking in the best possible way, by far.

I don't know why people are downvoting this. It really is an unpopular opinion.

just sell your microslop shares, this isn’t happening

Honestly if you think it's a good feature I challenge you to make a few short youtube tutorials demonstrating how to use it's helpful features. This will help to spread awareness, and helps convince people with evidence.

I have heard a lot of (what i think is) hot air from the microsoft head AI guy about how much it streamlines professional life and I would love if that was actually true, but I can't help feeling i would already know about these wondrous features if that was in fact the case. Because people would be gushing about them.

We already have proof that this is a popular feature for users since its been integrated in every mobile phone for the past 10 years

That seems like a good argument. People went crazy over siri and such.

LLMs are by far the best way to retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct).

I'm not sure when people ever need to retrieve information thet doesn't need to be correct, in a professional context. But thanks for being honest i guess.

Well that’s definitely an unpopular opinion

I will supplement it by saying Gemini is actually a decent Google replacement for mundane searches

But copilot and ChatGPT are complete garbage

I will only use it when the icon is an animated paperclip with eyeballs.

Just kidding, I have it so all of my shit work now so I don't have to. For example, I needed to write a compelling email celebrating international women's day for a client (a man) to send to the team. I was so angry I wasn't able to draft anything good. Copilot to the rescue! It spit something out with enough jargon to be compelling to any middle manager. The client sent it without edits.