• abbadon420@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    People on ELI5 ask questions that can be answered with a single google search. Yet they do not do the google search. What makes yoi think they will do the bard or chatgpt?

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      10 months ago

      Because if the second worst option is asking ELI5 something basic, then the worst thing is asking Al the same question and then getting the wrong answer. So they choose Al

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    10 months ago

    Interestingly, as ChatGPT might be trained on these ELI5 questions and as a result they are asked more infrequently, it might get worse over time or out of date on these types of questions by its own doing. I especially wonder how bad this influence will get on subjects that you’d normally search stackoverflow for.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah I read a 30 year old newspaper a while back and it was like super high latency internet. Message board, posts, replies to posts, personals etc. None of that stuff makes it into newspapers anymore…

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        10 months ago

        It is. I’ve seen ‘Write the Editor’ sections often in the magazines I check out from the library from time to time. IIRC: Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, and The New Yorker have one.

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        Newspapers? Depends who you ask

        Jokes aside, I am not talking about the “write the editor” sections we see now. I am saying they’d use it like GOOGLE. You’re not going to see someone ask “what’s 32,344 divided by 7?” Or “who is the senator of idaho” In the new yorker.

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    10 months ago

    I don’t get why people trust their answers so much. They lie. Confidently. Constantly.

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      10 months ago

      I usually ask the GPT, then look up the topic myself based on terms and keywords that were mentioned

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      I don’t get why people completely disregard their usefulness because of that. Just don’t trust anything they say until you verify it. It’s still useful for exploration or to get enough of a grasp of something that you can figure it out on your own.

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    10 months ago

    What are some other communities that are less used now? WritingPrompts and PhotoshopBattles come to mind for me