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You can just assume it's right or mostly right and move on with your life. We're not talking about designing spaceships here. Being wrong is allowed. > Reading
by slibhb 2y ago
You can just assume it's right or mostly right and move on with your life. We're not talking about designing spaceships here. Being wrong is allowed.
> Reading an inaccurate summary is actually less useful than reading nothing. It's not like the utility of the summary is to exercise a reading muscle.
No it's not. You're acting like these tools generately wildly inaccurate text. Even when they're wrong, they're mostly accurate. Almost everything people read is a mostly accurate summary, whether it's from some guy's article or wikipedia. We rarely go to the primary source.
edit - as a concrete example, I did my taxes this year with help from ChatGPT. It was a big improvement over using Google or reading through the instructions myself. And if it was wrong, well, maybe I'll get a bill or a check in the mail, but that was always a possibility and making a mistake on your taxes isn't illegal.
- layer8 2y ago> making a mistake on your taxes isn't illegal. It is when it amounts to tax evasion.
- slibhb 2y agoTax evasion hinges upon intent. If it's a mistake, it's not illegal.
- abduhl 2y ago>> And if it was wrong, well, maybe I'll get a bill or a check in the mail, but that was always a possibility and making a mistake on your taxes isn't illegal. If this is your approach to your taxes then you are probably wasting your time by using either of Google or ChatGPT. Just punch some numbers in to TurboTax based on a quick skim of the buttons, say “good enough for government work,” and wait for a check or a bill in the mail baby.
- slibhb 2y agoI don't want to pay someone for software to do my taxes.
- thwarted 2y agoBut you want to pay someone for software that doesn't do your taxes but looks like it does? Or are you using someone else's ChatGPT subscription to do your taxes?
- slibhb 2y agoI use chatGPT for lots of things besides paying my taxes.
- thwarted 2y agoSo it's not that you don't want to pay someone, it's that you get so little value out of accurate tax calculations that you only want to pay a tiny amount. Just because you can amortize the cost of ChatGPT over more operations doesn't mean you aren't paying for it. You said you didn't want to pay someone for software to do your taxes, not that you wanted to pay only a little.