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Automation is exactly what current-day generative AI should not be used for, because it lacks reliability and reproducibility.

I agree that it shouldn’t be used to translate Wikipedia pages without thorough review either.

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Sorry, should have been more clear. I meant "AI" in the sense that people refer to anything using machine learning as "AI". (Honestly "AI" is such a meaningless term. LLMs are anything but intelligent.) But I agree. For most tasks, a non-gen AI model trained specifically for that task is significantly better. People are just taking the output of gen AI and using it as-is, rather than treating it as a tool to be leveraged as part of something larger and programmatic, like all ML before it.

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