MFW someone says “chat gpt it”:
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What’s this show called again?
It’s from Finding Nemo
Oh shit nice I had no idea this subdomain exists, guess I’ll finally be rid of those stupid ai answers in private windows as well!
And it’s just a few years ago that I complained that most people don’t know the difference between a search bar and the URL bar anymore. I.e. they are incapable of entering web addresses directly.
This started when phones became somehow less shitty for browsing the web. So now everyone without a laptop/desktop could use it. And then it got even worse when browsers got replaced by search-engine-apps. “I thought google was the internet?”
I’m just happy it isn’t IE. And that normos have started to figure out that they can easily look up things they don’t know. But yeah, “nature builds a better fool”.
At least IE is dead. And edge isn’t really that bad. It’s actually very usable as a 2nd or 3rd browser.
That’s because Edge is just modded Chrome.
Well, they’re the same thing now on most browsers.
AOL keywords are back!
My wife’s cousin is doing chat gpt queries always before making decisions. She is not stupid but not bright either. I keep telling her it’s a algorithm and not AI but all I get a blank stare.
The worst to me is still “Oh, I ask him stuff all the time.”
Can we not gender the advanced auto complete, please…
Ehatrs the difference these days really? At least chat gpt does not have ads
Yet
That answers are all made up, but at least they’re not ads!
My point is, that you’re forced into that with Google too
Kill them 😡
“you are simply… Bad product”
Wouldn’t “GPT it” be easier/more likely to say?
I generally don’t use these, but Copilot (in Windows) uses one of them (I’m not sure which) and I’ve thrown a few questions at it when I’m bored. Nothing that matters. We have Windows 11 machines at work. I find AI amusing but I don’t take it seriously, and I don’t use it at home or on my mobile. It’s really not for me.
I don’t like Grok but they have a good name. I mean I don’t “like” any of them, but I like that one less because of its… the stuff it’s said. Mostly because of who’s been training it. But “Grok it” sounds better than Chat/GPT it and sounds almost as good as “Google it.”
Kagi that shit my guy
Well that’s because in the years leading up to the release of ChatGPT Google became shittier and shittier in performing the service everyone was trying to use it for and everyone needed to work. Then came out chatbots, which basically gave that functionality back. For most people accuracy didn’t matter because they could finally feel again that going to the internet to learn about something is viable.
Then of course AI makes search algortihms even less useful and all the ethical problems about AI are raised as well.
But in the end I can’t really blame people who now use AI instead of Google or something. Finding something with just a search query was always rightfully ours and greedy companies took it to make more ad revenue. Now they are finally giving back a worse version of the original, but one that’s still far superior to what search engines devolved into by now. It’s no surprise most people love and also need that.
Soon with some tweaking the AI answers will serve the shitified shit the SEO driven algorithms shat.
Like: Use Elmer’s TM ©️ glue on your Tombstone Pizza from Kroger to keep your toppings sticky!
So you’ll get ads baked into your wrong answer.
There is at least some merit to the technology for this use-case too though (doesn’t even remotely justify the energy costs though, of course). It’s one of the few things LLMs are genuinely good at since it merely requires text ingestion and to regurgitate what was ingested on some way. As long as it’s paired with proper sources (no clue how ChatGPT does it) for all claimed findings it really can be better. Obviously it’s also “better” since it circumvents all the utterly ridiculous trash we usually have to deal with (pop-ups, ads, dark patterns, registration walls, bad search algorithms etc.) which shouldn’t be used as argument.
Paired with the “Thinking” or “Reflection” feature that simulates some basic thinking process (it even enables these things to count the corrrect amount of ‘b’ in ‘blueberry’, wow!) the results are genuinely good (Disclaimer, I only ever tested that with the free tier of Mistral AI - if you really want to use this stuff at least go to them, they’re bound to EU law). I really get why it becomes so popular, and I’d lie if I said I’d never use it myself. Would still prefer if we weren’t going down this cyberpunk timeline though…
Edit: I’m strictly speaking about using it as a search engine when it does look up websites FOR you and reads through them, not when it makes shit up itself. Only then the stuff I said applies!
I use gpt every day of my life, professionally and personally. I won’t ask an LLM anything I don’t already know the answer to. I’ve seen them hallucinate way too much crap. With the Internet at our fingertips, there’s no excuse not to do a little of your own homework and proof what comes out of your LLMs.
Oh, and remove those em dashes. Everyone knows you don’t write that LinkedIn post full of em dashes, bro.
I use gpt every day of my life
eww why?
Various reasons. Pulling specific data out of documents. Lesson planning, based on parameters from clients. Talk tracks for clients who are co-hosting my courses. Several other tasks that I could perform more slowly.
I won’t ask an LLM anything I don’t already know the answer to.
Why are you asking if you already know the answer?
I’ve quite solidly taken to the phrase “Just Web search it” and gently replying “yes, I’ll Web search it” when prompted to “google it”.
I like using Google as a term for search to annoy Google.
So I’ll tell someone to use DDG to Google it
Or Google something on youtube
Or Google something on Facebook
Genericide is a power held by the people, and we should use it more often.
I like to say google and use DDG, I want them to lose their trademark
I don’t exactly trust DDG after I read about the founder. Have you tried Startpage?
Startpage is the business, can confirm. Only default on FF on my work computer though, boo to Safari (and the dumb add on that doesn’t actually add it).
Startpage is majority owned by an ad company
Don’t worry, you’re not old, they’re just stupid.
Google has become shit enough that you may as well.
Yet another tragedy of our time is watching Google ruin the internet with its SEO bullshit and then replace it with AI
I don’t think the answer is switching to another service that does not respect your privacy. I know it’s a bit of a meme atm but I’ve switched to kagi a few months back and haven’t looked back.
They replaced my algorithmic sorted response… with an algorithmic sorted response
