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    13 days ago

    Research in the sense of researching a problem you’re having or getting an idea of how to start an implementation for something is a great use case and pretty much the only one I regularly use them for. Search engines usually fail to produce anything useful when describing the problem requires complec grammar.

    Research in an academic sense yea they’re horrible.

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        13 days ago

        It really isn’t but sure. If you’re dumb enough to assume what it spits out is gospel it’s dogshit for that purpose too, but that’s a user issue. Not like random stackoverflow answers are always exactly what you need either lol

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          13 days ago

          The irony of you calling it an ID-ten-T error, located between peripheral and chair, while you vehemently defend the use of AI tp study a subject. You’re truly irredeemable.

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            13 days ago

            You are again misunderstanding what they are saying. they clearly said it had use as a search engine, not research in any academic sense.

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              13 days ago

              I am, again, not misunderstanding you, idk how you could possibly construe that. You’re a filthy slopper. It’s garbage for searching as it will inevitably misinform people with its hallucinations unlike an actual search engine.

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                13 days ago

                Being misinformed by it is, as I said, a user issue. But the amount of times that googling for half an hour did not get me an inch closer to the solution and then I asked chatgpt and it just lists me a bunch of ideas one of which inevitably sets me off on the right path (sometimes it’s even completely right in its solution, but that’s more 50/50) is greater than 2. It’s a tool that has its uses. Claiming it doesn’t because most people are too skill issued to use it as such doesn’t change the narrow but very useful use case these things have. Far too narrow to sustain this bubble, but that shouldn’t be news for anyone here.

                There’s an insane degree of irony in calling me a slopper or whatever while you’re displaying a fundamental unwillingness to critically engage

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                  12 days ago

                  Being misinformed by it is, as I said, a user issue.

                  This is the core of my disagreement with you worthless AI Techbro Sloppers.

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                    11 days ago

                    You seem to think I don’t hate AI techbros with a passion. I very much do. I’m just utilizing the tool that came out of this in the few ways in which it is actually useful, all while still getting a headache every time some manager at work talks about how AI will code everything in a few years because they believe the bullshit coming out of the mouths of the likes of altman and musk.