• Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
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    19 hours ago

    I use ChatGPT to learn all kinds of stuff. I say it’s replaced 50% of my searches. Not that it’s always right, but neither is all the blogspam.

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          6 hours ago

          “I wave my arms blindly in the dark and every so often I touch something before tripping on the furniture”

        • Bureaucrat [pup/pup's, null/void]@hexbear.net
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          15 hours ago

          Literally any thing that isn’t trained on blogspam or notorious for making up shit. You’re basically using a magic 8-ball to “learn” it just repeats what you say back at you. Its useless for research.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          14 hours ago

          Kagi+ChatGPT is getting me the quickest answers.

          If a human “expert” was a known liar and fantasist who never provided sources or footnotes - would you listen to them? And if you did - why?

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      13 hours ago

      I think people are overly critical - it is alright for some things, and it has gotten things right for me before, but generally I have to spend so much time double checking that it’s right that it isn’t worth the time. If it gets a detail wrong 10-15% of the time, then I have to check it every time.

      I do find it useful for admin tasks though.