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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Do the search yourself you'll see that you get a better answer.

Question: How to clean a rescued pidgeon

ChatGPT: Cleaning a rescued pigeon should be done carefully to avoid stressing or harming the bird. Here's a step-by-step guide to help you:

  1. Assess the Pigeon's Condition Check for injuries: If the pigeon is injured, weak, or sick, it's best to seek veterinary help before attempting to clean it. Observe behavior: If the pigeon is acting stressed or aggressive, you may need to wait until it calms down.
  2. Prepare the Cleaning Area Warm water: Fill a basin or sink with lukewarm water, not hot or cold. Mild soap: Use a gentle soap or baby shampoo without strong fragrances or chemicals. Towels: Have clean towels ready for drying the pigeon afterward.
  3. Handling the Pigeon Safely Wear gloves: This can protect both you and the bird. Secure hold: Hold the pigeon gently but firmly. Support its body with one hand and keep its wings close to its body to prevent flapping.
  4. Cleaning the Pigeon Partial cleaning: Focus on specific dirty areas rather than submerging the whole bird if possible. Use a damp cloth: For lightly soiled areas, use a damp cloth or sponge to wipe the feathers gently. Bath for heavier dirt: If a full wash is needed, place the pigeon in the water up to its chest. Avoid getting its head and neck wet unless absolutely necessary.
  5. Rinsing Rinse thoroughly: If you used soap, make sure to rinse all of it out of the feathers using clean, lukewarm water. Avoid the face: Be careful not to get water in the pigeon’s eyes, nose, or ears.
  6. Drying the Pigeon Pat dry: Gently pat the pigeon with a towel to remove excess water. Avoid rubbing as it could damage the feathers. Warm place: Keep the pigeon in a warm, draft-free area until it is completely dry. You can use a hairdryer on the lowest setting if the pigeon tolerates it, but keep it at a safe distance to avoid overheating.
  7. Post-Cleaning Care Observe behavior: Watch the pigeon for signs of stress or discomfort after the bath. Provide food and water: Ensure the pigeon has access to fresh water and a safe, comfortable place to rest. Additional Tips Do not use strong disinfectants or chemicals that can harm the bird's sensitive skin and feathers. Limit baths to when absolutely necessary, as frequent cleaning can strip the natural oils from the pigeon's feathers. If the pigeon seems injured or unwell, contact a wildlife rescue center or avian veterinarian for guidance.
[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it's still a crapshoot and therefore useless.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Could you be a little more constructive and point me at the points that are wrong and useless?

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

i think the point is that the answer is not reliable. it might be completely correct or borderline wrong, or something in between, and there's no way to tell without verifying everything it says - and then one could look it up oneself in the first place already.

[–] person420 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you're using AI verbatim without looking up answers and verifying results, then that's on you.

When you Google something, do you take the first result and just assume it's fact? You shouldn't for AI either.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you're going to do the research anyway, why bother with AI?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Honestly? It's a great place to start, especially with every search engine being worse than anything pre-2018

I used to have to post my error codes to a forum if googling them didn't immediately get my anywhere and pray someone would reply something actually useful some day

Now I can ask ChatGPT to point me at something and go from there. If it assumes wrongly about anything I can correct it rather simply. Its really good at turning documentation written by somebody who hasn't spoken to another human in 15 years into something my stupid ass can better understand, too

AI is a powerful as shit tool, people who slag it as not having any utility are about as ignorant as the people saying it's the second coming of Jesus himself

I'm personally planning to host a local model to avoid supporting commercial shit, but that's a project for down the line rn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

If you are going to cite textbooks anyway, why would you bother with a search engine?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The main problem I see is that Google just shouldn't include AI results. And they definitely shouldn't put their unreliable LLM front and center on the results page. When you google something, you want accurate information, which the LLM might have, but only if that data was readily available to begin with. So the stuff it can help with is stuff the search would put first already.

For anything requiring critical thought or research, the LLM will often hallucinate or misrepresent. The danger is that people do not always apply critical thinking. Defaulting to showing an LLM response is extremely dangerous, and it's basically pointless.

[–] person420 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know. I find it to be a helpful tool. There's definitely times it's wrong (very very wrong sometimes) and there's sometimes it's right. It's up to the user to figure that out.

Maybe I'm old and cynical, but I don't take anything I read on the Internet, especially something automatically generated, at face value. It's just another tool I could use to help get to the answer I'm looking for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I agree with you, and I use it that same way. But I think it should be something the user explicitly seeks out. The problem is that everyone who uses Google now unintentionally use an LLM in the exact same way they've always found human-written content. It's fundamentally different content, so shoving it into the existing interface is begging for confusion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Same as most human iterations then?

At least I fact check everything I read. Like I did with this post and the church of the anti-AI got angry they got fact checked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

i didn't get angry, that was the other guys. just trying to explain it rationally

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Im no fan of generative ai, but this argument drives me crazy, there are a lot of things that are easy to verify but hard to come up with, quite famously in fact.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The part where it gives random results of varying quality, sparky.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

In my experience it's still consistently better than Google for anything specific

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Trying to get free product improvement ideas?

Pay us first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yep, you caught me. I'm OpenAI CEO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While I'm not the person you replied to and don't know what their argument would be, I'll take a shot at giving my own answer. In many cases when people post examples of AI giving unhelpful or bad information, there's often someone who runs off to their favorite LLM to see if it gives a better result, and it usually does, so it gets treated like user error for using the wrong LLM or not wording the prompt properly. When in other examples that person's favorite LLM which gave the correct answer this time, is the bad example hallucinating or mixing unrelated concepts, and other people are in the comments promoting other LLMs that gave them a good reply this time. None of the LLMs are actually trustworthy consistently enough to be trusted alone, and you won't really know what answer is trustworthy unless you ask several LLMs and then go research the topic on your own anyway to figure out which answer is the most correct. It's a valid point that ChatGPT got the answer more right than Gemini this time, but it's somewhat useless to know that because other times ChatGPT is the one hallucinating wildly, and Gemini has the right answer, but since they've all been wrong before who do you trust.

LLMs are like asking an arrogant person who thinks they know everything, who rather than admitting what they don't know, will pull an answer out of their butt, and while it might be a logical answer, it isn't based in reality, and may still be wildly wrong. If you already mostly know the answer, maybe asking the arrogant person works, because you already know enough to know if they are speaking from their actual knowledge or making up an answer, but if you don't already have knowledge on a topic, you won't know whether the arrogant person is giving useful information or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's a tool, if you misuse a tool you can get hurt, if you use it right it can make your task easier. Ultimately it will likely cause problems in the future but the answer is easy, stop using Google and move to another search engine. You won't get the responses from Googles ai then. Enough people do so, Google will change it maybe.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

But Google doesn't use chatgpt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Unsurprising that GPT is better given that OpenAI has been working on it and training it for ages and the MS partnership made every other big boy feel the need to rush some garbage model to market