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The usual "use cases" mentioned usually seem to boil down to: - Acting as a lossy text decompressor (harmful) - Acting as a lossy text compressor (mostly tryi
by Nullabillity 3y ago
The usual "use cases" mentioned usually seem to boil down to:
- Acting as a lossy text decompressor (harmful)
- Acting as a lossy text compressor (mostly trying and failing to undo the damage from above)
- Acting as an outright bullshit generator (harmful)
- Acting as a poor substitute for a search engine with a propensity for trying to bullshit you (harmful)
- Acting as a poor substitute for a parser (which, even if it worked would be dumb because it doesn't understand structured output, so now you have two parsing problems)
- Generating broken and/or extremely poorly factored code (harmful)
- Hiding plagiarism (harmful)
GPT (and the AI hype in general) is the wrong solution to the wrong problem. Look at the effort that Google wasted on Duplex instead of OpenTable.
- steveoscaro 3y agoThat's all very knowledgable-sounding, but in reality, lots of people are using GPT every day for legitimately helpful and productive things.
- Nullabillity 3y agoAre you going to bring any counterexamples or keep assuming that someone… somewhere… must surely have found an actual use case for this garbage?