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Re: Let me GPT that for you

#13
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The thing about ChatGPT, I don't know if the answer is wrong or made up. I have a friend who helps me with Swedish and he isn't a language tutor - so sometimes he asks ChatGPT to explain something I've asked him. The crucial difference is that he's knowledgeable enough on the matter to vet the quality and then pass the information to me. If he or I were to just ask ChatGPT without any verification, then I would not b…

It's like P vs NP. There's tons of questions I get during my job that googling is not enough to answer. Whereas asking chatgpt yields results that are then easily verifiable with some googling.

Re: Let me GPT that for you

#14

I don't like the idea of telling people (even smugly at worst, if it's used the way LMGTFY was, and as the tagline[1] implies) to just ask ChatGPT instead of humans . LMGTFY returned human results that weren't SEO rubbish at the time for the most part, which you could classify yourself (or by others) as trustworthy or not. ChatGPT itself still sometimes hallucinates on pretty basic information and other users don't g…

If you don’t know that the google search or llm will respond with what will help them, then it’s directly against the purpose these exist for: the questioner put zero effort for a trivial answer, and you know that.

Re: Let me GPT that for you

#19
Never liked LMGTFY because it was always used in a snarky manner. But at least it somewhat was useful in that it mostly showed results as a springboard for the user to (hopefully) start learning how to parse information on the web.

This is taking it a step further to some form of intellectual learned helplessness.

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