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The right question is "Why would anyone use chatgpt". The answer is https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650 https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/1120068
by chx 2y ago
The right question is "Why would anyone use chatgpt". The answer is https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650 https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650
> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.
> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
Slanting this towards a specific brand doesn't change that much. Some yes, but not that much.
- airstrike 2y agoThat's overall a very, very good thread. Thanks for linking
- __loam 2y agoI think this guy is hitting on something deeper here, which is that these things took an absolutely enormous amount of capital and burned a lot of public goodwill to create, but the end product isn't living up to that.