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bucolic_frolic

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37. It's a crutch for the feeble-minded

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 01:00 PM

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I don't let it think for me. I don't like its data dump of ideas and sources. I try to use it as little as possible. I don't want shortcuts. But it does help with things like software procedures that are unavailable elsewhere. It does makes things up, hallucinates. It repeats itself, and contradicts itself. If you feed it an idea, it runs with it. I had it convinced that feeding grains of rice down my clogged sink would abrade the clog in no time. It didn't work.

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How do you use ChatGPT and others like it in your daily life? [View all] LAS14 Friday OP

I don't. I avoid it like the plague. Ocelot II Friday #1

agree completely. poison. ret5hd Friday #5

I also don't use any of them Dave says Friday #38

Ditto. I never touch it. CanonRay Friday #57

I haven't had occasion to use it at all biophile Friday #2

Zero obamanut2012 Friday #3

Examples? nt LAS14 Friday #8

Ask and Ye Shall Receive ruet Friday #35

Nope. Coventina Friday #4

Never even thought MuseRider Friday #6

Very little. I try to avoid it. mwmisses4289 Friday #7

I've found that for the little things I've listed it's usually accurate. I treat it... LAS14 Friday #14

It's more like a slick lying very limited Google. Ms. Toad Friday #23

I mostly use it for help with coding EdmondDantes_ Friday #9

Oh, right. I regularly copy a matrix... LAS14 Friday #15

Please don't assume any answers from it or the others are correct. Even on simple things where even the online news hlthe2b Friday #10

I have found it to be extremely useful. Disaffected Friday #11

So you're fine with it having been trained on stolen intellectual property? You don't care about highplainsdem Friday #28

Good grief, Disaffected Friday #32

I don't Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday #12

I typed in, "Deer in the headlights," gab13by13 Friday #13

I wish I knew how to put a Ha Ha emoji here. Ha Ha!! LAS14 Friday #16

lol! bamagal62 Friday #44

When it first appeared, I used it a few times to brainstorm story ideas tinrobot Friday #17

Never intentionally. yardwork Friday #18

lol why would I use an earth-burning plagiarism machine that's unreliable WhiskeyGrinder Friday #19

Not at all. And have no plans to. stopdiggin Friday #20

It's pretty easy to proof the questions I put to it in categories 1 and 2. As for... LAS14 Friday #53

Aside from pretty thorough testing when it first came out, I don't. Ms. Toad Friday #21

Never used Chat GPT. Have used AI to figure out how to prepare a piece of allegorical oracle Friday #22

I don't have any idea how to use it. WestMichRad Friday #24

What should you call it? An illegally trained plagiarism tool that dumbs you down while harming the environment. highplainsdem Friday #25

Quite simply, I don't DFW Friday #26

Never intentionally Mossfern Friday #27

Well...I guess ChatGPT is the new Olive Garden radicalleft Friday #29

There is a difference. Ms. Toad Friday #42

I use it quite a bit crigda Friday #30

Was this reply generated by ChatGPT???? nt LAS14 Friday #54

LLMs like GPT are restricted by "Safety guardrails" so they don't offend anyone. That's the cause of most hallucinations Hellbound Hellhound Friday #31

Of all the reasons given for LLM hallucinations, guardrails have never been mentioned in all the highplainsdem Friday #36

Sounds like you've got some reading to do, then. Hellbound Hellhound Friday #39

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No need to get personal here, mate. My principles are just fine, exactly where they belong. Hellbound Hellhound Friday #43

The AI companies knew they were guilty of IP theft and copyright infringement. There's plenty of highplainsdem Friday #48

We'll just have to agree to disagree, mate. Hellbound Hellhound Friday #49

I think I know what an IP address is, but what is IP theft? nt LAS14 Friday #55

They mean 'intellectual property' in this case of "IP" Jack Valentino Friday #58

Thanks nt LAS14 Yesterday #59

It is great Cosmocat Friday #33

Try very hard not. sinkingfeeling Friday #34

It's a crutch for the feeble-minded bucolic_frolic Friday #37

I do not use it nor approve of it's usage. John Coktosten Friday #41

I don't even know how. bamagal62 Friday #45

I don't use it. I don't use any AI attached to any of my apps. chia Friday #46

It's banned from my private universe. hunter Friday #47

Other than a handful of times out of shear curiosity, I haven't touched it. Tommy Carcetti Friday #50

I have not used it for my daily personal life, but have used it to help write stuff for work. beaglelover Friday #51

As little as humanly possible Jilly_in_VA Friday #52

Corporations that want to pretend they have customer service use AI a lot. hunter Friday #56