Comment by bilsbie
20 hours ago
> Do I ever use AI applications to quickly check something and then discover that hours have passed?
This used to happen on Wikipedia all the time back in the day. It was called going down a rabbit hole. Actually a cool phenomenon IMO.
Used to love going down wikipedia rabbit holes.
With AI usage I actually find I spend less time on the internet or going down rabbit holes than I used to without it.
I wonder how many lies you've internalized. "The models keep getting better" but whenever I ask them questions I know the answers to I get back answers that make me suspicious of the answers I get to questions I don't know the answer to.
I still spend a lot of time reading primary sources, and AI is still frequently wrong, which makes it useless for learning unless you confirm everything with a primary source because you can't know if it's confabulating when you are learning. If you have to double check everything, it's useless, EXCEPT for vague questions, to help you generate keywords for use in traditional search.