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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 13 points 22 hours ago

"I've asked ChatGPT about xyz" , and "how to use chatGPT for xyz" in my experience gets me downvotes fast.

People are quick to presume you have no ability to fact check anything and that you will be following its advice blindly, (which mind you - you were never asking for in the first place) instead of asking a human, ever ( for example about medical conditions but not limited to that topic). People presume you are trying to eliminate the human factor out of the equation completely and are quick to remind you of your sins, god forbid you ever use a chatbot to test ideas, ask for a summary on a topic so you can expand your research later or get creative with it in any way. If you do, most people don't like to know.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

ChatGPT is awful for the environment and should not be used

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 15 points 21 hours ago

I think the bigger problem is that each answer it gives basically destroys a forest

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 21 hours ago

I think the bigger problem is that each answer it gives basically destroys a forest

That, and it's filling once-useful search engines with useless and even dangerous gibberish.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, that's a big one. Search engines had been getting worse, but the decline was turbocharged after all the LLM hype. Search engines are practically unusable now

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 20 hours ago

LLMs, in their primary and most common uses, are planet-burning trash, but the important thing is the contrarian in this thread found a way to feel superior to those that don't like when material conditions get worse.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 7 points 20 hours ago

michael-laugh well then its all been worth it

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago

Okay that's a valid point and one so far nobody comes up with. Congrats

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 20 hours ago

and are quick to remind you of your sins

On the other hand, it's totally cool and good to drag around a big cross of contrarianism in a totally-not-self-righteous way because your treat printers were criticized, amirite? smuglord

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 9 points 21 hours ago

If you have fact-checked it, why not just say that wherever you did that is where you got the answer from? People are right to be skeptical of "ChatGPT says so", and if you've used it as the start of your research rather than as your entire research then just saying "I asked ChatGPT" is no different to "I googled it", and nobody would much like you saying that either. How you found the information is less important than where you found it.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

This are precisely the kind of presumptions people make. I'm never making an argument "because ChatGPT says so". And yes you are absolutely right - chatbot answers are on par with search engine results if not even less reliable in occasions. My point is that I'm not using any of the information as evidence, counterpoints or even advice. People take a stand as if I were.

For example, once I asked ChatGPT about a sensation I feel on my skin after heavy exercise, because googling didn't give me satisfactory results. GPT didn't either, but it gave me a list of close matches. The sensation itself was never a problem for me, never something I intended to change, was never something I would consider going to a doctor for and if I never knew what was causing it my life would carry on just the same. I was simply curious. And out of curiosity I asked here, and the majority of the answers were "you shouldn't be asking to randoms online, how dare you", "this is a question for a doctor, don't ask for medical advice to a chatbot" - both stances baffled me. Never in my post I said anything that suggested I was in pain, discomfort, or that I wanted to change anything about it, or that I was expecting people to tell me how to make it go away- nothing. I just wanted to know what it was, period. People presume.

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