Mozilla recently tried to integrate some AI stuff into its MDN. The corresponding Github issue is correctly titled “MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information”.
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That’s amazing that they would consider auto-generated responses to be appropriate in something which is supposed to be reference documentation. We are a good way from that type of querying and explanation being reliable.
Don’t forget -r for when you -really want to delete that file
Use
--no-preserve-rootif you want to keep a backup of the file offsite in Norway.No! Preserve root!
--no-preserve-rootis a security option to keep you from accidentally removing all your files. Make sure you always use it along side the-foption and-rwhich stands for rescue - meaning rm will create a rescue copy of the deleted data.It means No! Preserve Root.
Using AI is much more hit and miss than executing the first google result blindly, which has been available since decades. And google didn’t cost us our jobs, so I am not afraid of AI.
while i get that at some point chatgpt could have been mildly good at bolierplate programming, it’s much worse at chemistry. just ask it how to make aspirin
I’m assuming they’ve blocked out chemistry from the training data. It’s crazy how easy it is to make many things from common chemicals, the liability would be insane.
No they didn’t, gpt-3 was just spectacularly wrong
