I genuinely did not know that! 😵
This reminds me of a similar factoid.
Did you know that if you took the entire Pacific salmon catch and laid it out nose to tail across the Sahara desert…
…the stench would be overpowering!
OpenAI stays alive the same way Farcebook stays alive, Goober stays alive, Xhitter stays alive, etc. etc.
Flat-out grifting.
A bit of Korean and Chinese punk. A smattering of Chinese grunge. Some Malaysian Buddhist music. Some Taiwanese Buddhist death metal (no, really!).
Perhaps you may wish to look up "anecdote" vs. "data" sometime.
The funniest line from social media:
"Maybe it's because we don't need a computer to automate mansplaining when there's already an excess supply produced by men," answers one woman.
No. Hot dogs are repulsive.
… how is a free service supposed to be sustained?
That seems to me to be a powerful argument against "free" services. Because there's no such thing. Not even:
Free only works if it’s offline/self-hosted and open source IMO.
"Self-hosted" isn't free. You have to pay for the hosting site one way or another, even if it's on your property. (Those bandwidth fees? That's payment.)
I’ll bring an example of a subscription service that still hasn’t enshittified: Mullvad VPN. It’s still a fiver a month and you can’t pay extra for extra functionality. It just always costs the same.
What are the trade-offs associated with it? It was made in 2009. Fifteen years later it hasn't changed its prices, even as everything around it (including its network fees) has increased? Colour me a little … dubious.
Have you considered, then, the possibility that you should be on something?
I'll rent you mine. 🤣
Today. I rolled a beer can on the first try onto the highest-payback patch on a mat. I won a six-pack.
OK, not really impressive, but I did surprise a few people around me who never landed on any payback patches after three tries each.
Time to sharpen the blades and oil the tracks of the guillotines.
Just in case that URL doesn't replicate the session properly I've added a screenshot of the session to the end.
A few things are obvious here. First the choice to trumpet the "strengths" of degenerative AI while qualifying the weaknesses is clearly a choice made in the programming of the system. In later interactions it claims that this was not specifically programmed into it but, as it says, it's a black box and there's no way to confirm nor deny anything it claims.
Which is, you know, pretty much the reason why degenerative AI can't be trusted.
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Which is absolutely hilarious to me given how often it hallucinates answers.
I recently tried ChatGPT as a Google alternative. It looked very impressive as it found things based on the slightest of clues. Except that literally everything it found was made up. It "found" a movie quote by Orson Welles that was never quoted. It "found" a song by an artist that said artist never released. It "found" an album by a group released four years before said group's first release.
If you're using ChatGPT as a Google replacement you are being dangerously misinformed by a degenerative "AI" that speaks with the certitude of a techbrodude.