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Whether this is a breach or, as others have suggested, the LLM bullshitting you - for which I guess the politically correct term is still "hallucination" - it's bizarre to me that these tech companies who really should know better* continue the rushed and forced rollout of these "features" for use cases that are exactly the worst places to use them - where the information matters but a plausibly fluid prose kinda doesn't, and you're focused on something else meaning that factual errors and omissions aren't something you can check in the moment, but perhaps won't even think to check later because you have been led to believe you got the gist of the message while not able to check it

As someone with ADHD who could at times really benefit from a "personal assistant", the way tech companies are pushing these things sounds more like nightmare fuel than a godsend. And that's as someone who really does think there exist good use cases for these things, even as an increasingly vocal crowd not in the tech bubble is naysaying even that - also a predictable backlash to this godawful rollout

*Especially google. Like I watched them spend basically the entire time I was in grad school and many years after luring prominent professors in AI/ML with crazy salaries and their own labs


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