Just heard this today - co worker used an LLM to find him some shoes that fit. Basically prompted it to find specific shoes that fit wider/narrower feet and it just scraped reviews and told him what to get. I guess it worked perfectly for him.
I hate this sort of thing - however this is why normies love LLM’s. It’s going to be the new way every single person uses the internet. Hell, on a new win 11 install the first thing that comes up is copilot saying “hey use me i’m better than google!!”
Frustrating.
LLMs can be useful in some limited contexts and when you are aware that they aren’t magic. They also shouldn’t be relied upon for anything super important.
Personally I’ve found utility in LLMs for non-critical stuff, like writing scripts for a video game I’ve been playing where it can comb through the scripting documentation and spit out answers to requests much faster than I could read and write my own script.