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“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit, lamenting that the bot now speaks in clipped, utilitarian sentences. “The fact it shifted overnight feels like losing a piece of stability, solace, and love.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkumyz/i_lost_my_only_friend_overnight/

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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 26 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Don’t they have enough?!? How about they fix and optimize their fancy autocompletion software instead?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 8 points 7 hours ago

Don’t they have enough?!?

No no, it's just 1 more data center bro, then we'll fix the hallucinations, promise bro!

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 28 points 11 hours ago

They took a path they believed would develop into something, and it's a narrow alley they can't turn around in. They have to keep going with more compute and power to continue the chase. Thing is, everyone else seemingly thought they were onto something and followed as well, so they're all in the same predicament where reversing course is suicide. So they hope they can keep selling the dream a bit longer until something happens.

To be fair, it's a lot more than just autocomplete. But it's a lot less than what they wanted by now too.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

Fix and optimize? Thats way harder than using VC money to buy more things.