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

[adritheonly@mastodon.social]

@falcennial Question to the 25%. Is it worth burning the planet down for a few bytes of misinformation?

[flominator@genealysis.social]

@falcennial
Chat as in "use" or as in "having an actual conversation"?

[jbqueru@floss.social]

@falcennial Every few months, each time they claim "this time it's actually intelligent", to verify that it's not.

[goblinquester@dice.camp]

@falcennial What do you mean by chat? Just any propmt? Or prompt it to generate something that looks like a social conversation?
Kinda bit difference between those two promts versions.

[kittenkoder@mastodon.social]

@falcennial Delete all LLMs/ai. People who use them don't think.

[amy0223@mindly.social]

@falcennial @FreakyFwoof I’m interpreting “chat” to mean voice to voice conversation; something I never do. If this is not what is meant by “chat” the wording of this post may need changing. If you really mean chat, then awesome! My vote stands.

[rootsandcalluses@norden.social]

@falcennial Voluntarily? Or does every customer call and chat count?

[rwwh@mastodon.social]

@falcennial note: I only use locally run models.

[ann_in_a@livellosegreto.it]

@falcennial I would not do it at all, but my job has a new travel policy that requires us to book work-related trips via a chatbot. Only if the chatbot doesn't return suitable options (which is quite frequently tbh), I can book myself and claim reimbursement. But I have to chat with the bot first.

Additionally, there's the odd occasion in which I need to contact some customer service, and the first/only option is a chatbot.
This adds up to a few times per month

[adam_wysokinski@fediscience.org]

@falcennial I don't chat with LLMs, I chat with people. However, I frequently (each day) use LLMs for researching information, OCRing and translating documents, proofing my formal writing for language, style and grammar, checking code for hard to trace errors, explaining topics out of my fields, comparing products before purchasing and much more. I run some open, local models, but also use others.

[selvari21106@mastodon.social]

@falcennial not so far as I'm aware, though I can't fully rule out the possibility that I've spoken to one masquerading as a human and not realised

[shadsterling@mastodon.social]

@falcennial I voted “not at all”, but I am forced to use a customer service chatbot a few times a month

[shadowwwind@mastodon.social]

@falcennial when someone sends me a schedule in plain text, I use an LLM to turn it into an ics file to import into my calendar. I think that sums up my use in the past two months.

[rnichols1@mastodon.social]

@falcennial I suspect you'd get better results if you asked how often people use, rather than chat with, LLMs - chat is too vague

[sarahw@mastodon.green]

@falcennial
I actively avoid using any form of AI.
Unfortunately, it's occasionally unavoidable at work. I switch it off whenever possible.

[dave@europhiles.uk]

@falcennial this is a confusing question. I don't chat with LLMs; I use them to obtain and distill information that would take me a lot longer and multiple web searches to obtain myself. I do that several times a week, but I have never used them to generate pointless videos or just have a fake conversation.

[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@falcennial thanks for doing this.

It’s very hard to phrase a poll like this so that there is no ambiguity.

I suggest to people asking “what do you mean” or “does chat mean…X” to just vote with what feels closest.

Fwiw, I feel the poll is quite a lot about a general disposition, more than it is about precision

[daftwullie@freiburg.social]

@falcennial @_tillwe_ unfortunately I have to if I don’t find the information in our universities shitty intranet platform. Sometimes the stupid chatbot is the only help I‘ve got to get a hint where to look for the required information. More often than not its answers are wrong, but at least it gives me a starting point for further exploration.

[leonavis@mountains.social]

@falcennial I have a local setup and use that exclusively. Good for learning Chinese and physics

[christo_459@mastodon.me.uk]

@falcennial
Avoid it like the plague