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In reply to the discussion: How do you use ChatGPT and others like it in your daily life? [View all]highplainsdem
(62,226 posts)28. So you're fine with it having been trained on stolen intellectual property? You don't care about
the envirinmental damage done by data centers? Or the studies showing it dumbs users down? Or the harm done to all the websites deprived of traffic after the AI companies stole their content?
But hey, it saves you a bit of time even though its results are unreliable. Including code that's often a security risk, with flaws that are hard to catch - harder if you're vibe coding and don't know how to code.
But wow, it gives you incompetent results in seconds.
They've done studies showing that if people take time to catch all the coding problems, AI coding doesn't really save time.
The more careless you are with verifying AI results, the more impressive it seems.
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I've found that for the little things I've listed it's usually accurate. I treat it...
LAS14
Dec 2025
#14
Please don't assume any answers from it or the others are correct. Even on simple things where even the online news
hlthe2b
Dec 2025
#10
So you're fine with it having been trained on stolen intellectual property? You don't care about
highplainsdem
Dec 2025
#28
lol why would I use an earth-burning plagiarism machine that's unreliable
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2025
#19
It's pretty easy to proof the questions I put to it in categories 1 and 2. As for...
LAS14
Dec 2025
#53
Never used Chat GPT. Have used AI to figure out how to prepare a piece of
allegorical oracle
Dec 2025
#22
What should you call it? An illegally trained plagiarism tool that dumbs you down while harming the environment.
highplainsdem
Dec 2025
#25
LLMs like GPT are restricted by "Safety guardrails" so they don't offend anyone. That's the cause of most hallucinations
Hellbound Hellhound
Dec 2025
#31
Of all the reasons given for LLM hallucinations, guardrails have never been mentioned in all the
highplainsdem
Dec 2025
#36
No need to get personal here, mate. My principles are just fine, exactly where they belong.
Hellbound Hellhound
Dec 2025
#43
The AI companies knew they were guilty of IP theft and copyright infringement. There's plenty of
highplainsdem
Dec 2025
#48
Other than a handful of times out of shear curiosity, I haven't touched it.
Tommy Carcetti
Dec 2025
#50
I have not used it for my daily personal life, but have used it to help write stuff for work.
beaglelover
Dec 2025
#51