• SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    At best it’s a glorified personal assistant that can handle simple tasks like “hey google me taco recipes” at worst it’s a tool really vulnerable people use to parrot back at them bad ideas that make them spiral further into depression.

    • TheSovietOnion [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      1 day ago

      Yup. I use deepseek in my job, but it is for the mechanical, non-thinking part that usually takes the most time.

      I’ve reduced ~3h of labor to ~1h due to it, but the first step is understanding it is, as you said, a glorified personal assistant (pretty sure it even described itself as an assistant or a copilot as I was working up the prompts)