@davidshq@hachyderm.ioHow did I just learn today that #OpenAI is retaining all #ChatGPT chat logs due to a court order: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davemackey_openai-slams-court-order-to-save-all-chatgpt-activity-7336194682093273088-3ode
@bauspanderu@social.linux.pizzaDanke dafür #ChatGPT, naja, was soll man von ner amerikanischen Firma erwarten... Sicherlich keine Aufklärung über den #Holocaust.
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.netBest of all: everything is free, thanks to #openrouter 😍
I am so sick of all these none-free bullshit websites or chrome-plugins that don't work. Even the custom GPTs in #chatgpt are bullshit. The only YouTube summarizer that works is
@qbi@freie-re.de
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org @davidshq@hachyderm.ioI'm reading The Lost Princess by #GeorgeMacDonald and in one paragraph he starts off by saying that there is a fire made of fir-wood and by the end of the paragraph refers to it as a peat fire.
#ChatGPT informs me that fir-wood is fast burning and was often used in #Scotland to get a fire started while peat was long-burning and thus would be added to the fire thereafter.
It seems logical, but ChatGPT has also struggled to provide me with clear references to this information.
Curious if anyone is familiar with whether this was/is so? I'd like something to depend upon beyond the words of generative AI. 😂
#question
@77slevin@social.linux.pizza
@Speckdaene@nrw.social
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioThe more time goes on, the more conflicted I get about #AI. (or, more specifically, generative AI. I like causal AI a fair bit)
On one hand, I hate so much about it:
the needless environmental and electronic parts waste, the impact on labor, the monopolistic nature of main organizations driving it, the endless conversations about AGI and other absurdly utopian (or dystopian) futures, the widespread theft of IP and human work, the devaluation of labor and craft… so much of it is not okay at all.
On the other hand, I kinda get it?
I like to test software for myself, so I've been dipping my toes into some popular AI tools over the past couple of years. I have a paid subscription to ChatGPT (which I don’t feel great about, I know), and I have found genuine utility in it.
More so, I feel so conflicted when I talk to people I respect and who I think are very smart and creative and they tell me how in love they are with all of these AI tools, about the complex workflows they build, about their experiments with agentic AI and integrations... These people seem so excited, so alive, so joyous about the things that this technology allows them to do. They often wouldn't have had the skills / knowledge / financial capital to do some of those things with human efforts alone. And now I see them coding their own tools, doing complex data analysis, trying creative experiments with graphics / text / video...
And I feel like a total jerk going "BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS UNETHICAL AND INEFFICIENT AND YOU SHOULD STOP IT BECAUSE AI SUCKS".
The technology behind all these gen AI models does have real utility, and it has kicked off a lot of creativity from people who wouldn't have dabbled in those kinds of projects otherwise.
So I don't know how to feel. Because I can't let go of the guilt and the real problems and the awareness of how much empty hype there is.
#technology #artificialintelligence #genAI #ChatGPT
