Hey ChatGPT, please generate a Firefox Corp-style apology for this snafu... Be sure to use some bullshit blah blah for our original aim of wanting to enhance user experience and listening to the users' feedback, and some more bullshit blah blah about doing better in the future.
Who owns MDN? I thought it was disbanded by Mozilla few years ago.
MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information
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#62@dang: Title is clickbait. Perhaps replace with something like: Bug report: MDN's AI Explain feature generates false explanations
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Aye, I agree this sounds like a strange and ill-fitting implementation. And it bums me out, because the more LLMs are used incorrectly, the harder it is to get people to use them at all.
You’re worried about people not using LLM’s _enough_???
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#64I've never witnessed a github issue where the comments are unanimous like this one. So far there isn't a single naysayer. Could probably build fairly successful political party off of this once-in-a-lifetime momentum. :)
Interestingly, there are more negative comments on Hacker News than on the bug discussion. This probably tells something about the audiences of MDN bug commenters and Hacker News readers.
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#65Now if only an AI could explain to me those intractable terms and contracts of BigCo's. /s
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I compare them to placebos because they can be effective and they can have zero active ingredient.
That's a fairer comparison that I read it as. I'd say they're more like a pharmacy, usually dispensing medicine. But we don't really know how half the medicine works, and sometimes it hurts people.
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That's a fairer comparison that I read it as. I'd say they're more like a pharmacy, usually dispensing medicine. But we don't really know how half the medicine works, and sometimes it hurts people.
Would you shop at such a pharmacy? I wouldn’t and I don’t.
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Would you shop at such a pharmacy? I wouldn’t and I don’t.
That accurately describes all pharmacies. Medicine is hard.
Unless you're referring to the scam-filled supplements aisle, in which case I agree wholeheartedly with your comparison.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a fairer comparison that I read it as. I'd say they're more like a pharmacy, usually dispensing medicine. But we don't really know how half the medicine works, and sometimes it hurts people.
Would you shop at such a pharmacy? I wouldn’t and I don’t.
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Would you shop at such a pharmacy? I wouldn’t and I don’t.
I was thinking more about SSRI's, which make up over half ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8450889/ ) of US pharmacy orders. While we do know that they work for some people, they only work for 20% of people ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK361016/ ). They also come with common side effects that can lower quality of life ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719451/ ). And we do not unde…