Wait, people actually try to use gpt for regular everyday shit?
I do lorebuilding shit (in which gpt’s “hallucinations” are a feature not a bug), or I’ll just ramble at it while drunk off my ass about whatever my autistic brain is hyperfixated on. I’ve given up on trying to do coding projects, because gpt is even worse at it than I am.
They absolutely do. Some people basically use it instead of Google or whatever.
Shopping lists, vacation planning, gift lists, cooking recipes, just about everything.
It’s great at it, because it’ll bother trawling webpages for all that stuff that you can’t be bothered to spend hours doing. The internet is really soo shitified that it’s easier to use a computer to do this.
I hate that it is so. It’s a complete waste of ressources, but I understand it.
It’s a waste of your resources to close popups, set cookie preferences and read five full screens about grandma’s farm before getting to the point: “Preheat the oven to 200°c and heat the pizza for 15 minutes.”, when ChatGPT could’ve presented it right away without any ads.
Brought to you by chrome being the biggest browser and it willfully enshittifying adblockers, which incidentally made searching way more tedious and funneled people to LLMs.
I think the AI hype will die when it gets enshittified enough.
At first they’ll start injecting sponsored results, then it’s going to be pay up or watch 3 adds before access, while still showing the product-placed content regardless.
Companies will be offered a “professional subscription” just to use it without the first two ads.
Right now, it’s free, because they want people to get addicted to he ease of answers that was previously supplied by search engines.
At no point will they ever generate the content that people are searching for. Googles main mission is to obstruct people from getting that.
Best case, wiith enough competition, AI is just going to be another layer to see through, because previous versions of the internet has been made unusable by advertising.
Yeah, it’s a useful tool if you are cautious and know what it can and cannot do. The issue is when I have to tell my relatives that using ChatGPT to do your taxes in a poor idea. As long as you know what you’re doing, there’s no reason to demonize its use (outside of environmental factors and infringement of intellectual property. heh…).
It’s perfectly good for things where you don’t need an accurate answer, but just can’t be bothered to do yourself. A good question would be like “I’m going on a weekend trip to Paris with my wife. Give me two choices with differently priced options for schedules Friday to Monday with the main attractions… both options should be less than €500”
It’d take about a weekend to do that research manually with any search engine. AI can deliver it within minutes.
So, forget about having it do fool proof explicit programming, in which it would fail. It’s force is in doing cumbersome mondane stuff fast.
Wait, people actually try to use gpt for regular everyday shit?
I do lorebuilding shit (in which gpt’s “hallucinations” are a feature not a bug), or I’ll just ramble at it while drunk off my ass about whatever my autistic brain is hyperfixated on. I’ve given up on trying to do coding projects, because gpt is even worse at it than I am.
I have encountered some people who use it as a substitute for thinking. To the extent that it’s rather unnerving.
They absolutely do. Some people basically use it instead of Google or whatever. Shopping lists, vacation planning, gift lists, cooking recipes, just about everything.
It’s great at it, because it’ll bother trawling webpages for all that stuff that you can’t be bothered to spend hours doing. The internet is really soo shitified that it’s easier to use a computer to do this.
I hate that it is so. It’s a complete waste of ressources, but I understand it.
It’s a waste of your resources to close popups, set cookie preferences and read five full screens about grandma’s farm before getting to the point: “Preheat the oven to 200°c and heat the pizza for 15 minutes.”, when ChatGPT could’ve presented it right away without any ads.
Brought to you by chrome being the biggest browser and it willfully enshittifying adblockers, which incidentally made searching way more tedious and funneled people to LLMs.
I think the AI hype will die when it gets enshittified enough.
At first they’ll start injecting sponsored results, then it’s going to be pay up or watch 3 adds before access, while still showing the product-placed content regardless.
Companies will be offered a “professional subscription” just to use it without the first two ads.
Right now, it’s free, because they want people to get addicted to he ease of answers that was previously supplied by search engines.
At no point will they ever generate the content that people are searching for. Googles main mission is to obstruct people from getting that.
Best case, wiith enough competition, AI is just going to be another layer to see through, because previous versions of the internet has been made unusable by advertising.
Yeah, it’s a useful tool if you are cautious and know what it can and cannot do. The issue is when I have to tell my relatives that using ChatGPT to do your taxes in a poor idea. As long as you know what you’re doing, there’s no reason to demonize its use (outside of environmental factors and infringement of intellectual property. heh…).
It’s perfectly good for things where you don’t need an accurate answer, but just can’t be bothered to do yourself. A good question would be like “I’m going on a weekend trip to Paris with my wife. Give me two choices with differently priced options for schedules Friday to Monday with the main attractions… both options should be less than €500”
It’d take about a weekend to do that research manually with any search engine. AI can deliver it within minutes. So, forget about having it do fool proof explicit programming, in which it would fail. It’s force is in doing cumbersome mondane stuff fast.