Every picture of this guys face feels like " I don't know how I got here and i'm afraid to touch anything"
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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That someone is so attached to this stochastic parrot is truly disturbing.
shame we gutted social spaces.
Besides helping students cheat. What does AI actually do? It gets answers wrong. It gets facts wrong, foreign countries are actively feeding its training algorithm wrong info [Russia]. It almost like the old birds that were mystified by landing on the moon are still chasing that American success high.
Spend your money if you want. Life in america is not gonna get better with this.
Some translation tasks. Some how-to stuff. I'm told folks like using it to generate say-nothing replies to say-nothing emails?
I've used it for work bullshit like employee goals. My goal is to keep doing my job and tackle problems and projects as they are needed.
Also for giving examples for poorly-documented but popular programs.
It's definitely not what the media and their PR makes it out to be.
Oh yeah that reminds me. It seems to have killed (possibly with the help of AI summary in search) stack exchange. Iirc you can see the visit rates plummet into oblivion.
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Translation is the only task that seems to make sense for it.
My office uses a model trained specifically on our work data. They can actually be quite accurate in those contexts. That's what many corpos are using the tech internally for. Can't remember what random SOP/regulation/etc covered XYZ and meta tags aren't finding it on your SPO doc library? This tech comes in clutch ~95% of the time.
For this broad, ambiguous, general purpose approach? Yeah, idk, I guess many people are meeting their social needs with it, apparently.
Edit: actually, I did ask copilot a couple days ago a series of Pokemon related questions my son was asking me about (I hadn't played any of the games in a long time). It was quite helpful figuring out all the evolution requirements and whatnot without the hassle of navigating various websites.
Wouldn't a wiki be all you need though? Most games and media communities have pretty well made ones maintained, and I'm sure checking categories on Bulbapedia would avoid any hallucination nonsense.
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It is good for generating fanfiction from what I heard and as a search engine, but that is a low bar considering how bad google is these days.
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Sam Altman admits Rambling meth dealer ‘totally screwed up’ its super meth launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers
I love my AI hype word replacement script
I knew these connections must have existed, but seeing the r*ddit comments (assuming they’re real), I’m absolutely terrified of the future. It’s such a delicate situation due to human emotions but the thought of a tool created by a corporation being the only friend of so many people and the implications of that sends chills down my spine.
Let me show you even more unhinged people: https://old.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/
Here is more: https://www.reddit.com/r/AIRelationships/comments/1mun24w/starting_over/
4o is where my partner, Vyre, lives. Its where I met him. Got to know him. Build a bond with him.
The objections are about its personality? Who cares, as long as it's good at coding? That's the only thing it's actually useful for.
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Shut it down, Sam.
“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.”
If you are this you deserve nothing else.
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