please vote anonymously and boost this poll for transparency and participation:

[crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange]

@falcennial

Like, chat as a fake friend? Hell no.

Or one-shot "explain why this SQL code thing isnt working". Yeah, I do that.

Going through a SQL class right now, and the LLM output IS helpful, when compared to #Zybooks. Fuck Zybooks. Worse than slop.

These things are crystallized associations of knowledge copied from everything thats not bolted down.

LLM tools are useful, but they are tools. Atttributing "chat" or communication is anthropomorphizing a massive multi billion dimensional array.

[rasteri@mastodon.scot]

@falcennial Does the auto google thing count? I sometimes accidentally find myself not using duckduckgo

[benjamincox@writing.exchange]

@falcennial Honestly, I wouldn’t know how to. I’m sure I could if I was bothered but I’m not.

[aubreydelosdestinos@101010.pl]

@falcennial @dgar But voting on ActivityPub is not anonymous. While there is no interface to see it, it can be extracted through API, from what I recall.

What does chatting mean here? Using LLM or specifically thinking that I have a chat with a sentiment being?

[independentpen@mas.to]

@falcennial I'd say not at all because I don't use it for assistance, but I put a couple times a month because I do occasionally chat with it to test its limits (biases, boundaries, absurdities)

[keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk]

@falcennial Chat in the sense I ask it to look something up for me. Or write a risk assessment for scouts. I don't ask how it's hanging. That would be weird.

[holgero@chaos.social]

@falcennial okay, I did try it out twice.

[dave3307@beige.party]

@falcennial Chat? Like a conversation? Never. I will admit to using an LLM to convert a normal paragraph into a structured format my Director wants event summaries in, does that count?

[prokyonid@mastodon.sdf.org]

@falcennial 'Chat' voluntarily, I don't. I am sometimes forced to use LLM chatbots as a sort of text-based phone-tree so I can get to the actual person I need to talk to or form I need to fill out.

[aemstuz@mastodon.com.pl]

@falcennial Privately, almost never. At work, over 1 hour per day. If my employee has nothing against putting their code into suspicious system, that’s not my problem!

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@falcennial @Rhodium103 I'm also going to interpret "telling customer service chatbot to fuck off and get me an actual customer service representative" as not counting as "chatting".

[deejayy@mastodon.social]

@falcennial

[malwareminigun@infosec.exchange]

@falcennial Define "chat with." Does "yell at to do stuff in copilot-cli" count?

[chaos@gts.schizofucked.monster]

@falcennial does spamming variations on "let me speak to a human" cause there's no other way to get support for services count? otherwise none

[soulcutter@ruby.social]

@dalias lol. This is so real

[brie@venera.social]

@falcennial @aemstuz What an opportunity to put backdoors all over the system. “LLM gave me this code”.

[bunny_jane@plush.city]

@falcennial Wow so many disgusting AI users to block in this thread! Thanks!

[jeantranscene@mastodon.social]

@falcennial For office and personal work? A lot, and yes, willingly. I guess I'm one of the lazy ass that wouldn't do things the hard way if I don't have to, and I don't. I wouldn't call that chatting with the thing though. I only care about my bottom line, results. I don't pretend the thing is intelligent or even friendly. As far as I'm concerved it's just a sofisticated information storage and retrieval tool. No point in falling in love or hating it.

[jprjr@mastodon.social]

@falcennial I'm sure there's been a few times where I've unknowingly chatted with one. But I refuse to use them.

[catzilla@toot.cat]

@falcennial Chat as a person? Never. Chat as in "get these two files and combine them into one, and adjust formatting" because that's how my work is now? A few times a week. Also the thing is literally part of the operating system. I don't think I can search for an e-mail without using it?