ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

Sidenote, thanks for showing me sharegpt... Often you want to show something and screenshots are such a terrible way to go. I don't understand why OpenAI doesn't have a share icon with a pretty print html link.

Hey OpenAI, that'd be a good idea?

Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

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Post by tacroqueen » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 2:20 AM UTC

subleq wrote: post #3

A 1987 BBS would not ask for an email address, would it?

No it would not. And "News" on a BBS called the Underground BBS is definitely not something probable. And real name? LOL. This is dream like - superficially/vaguely resembling reality, but very off on careful inspection.

Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

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Post by ipcress_file » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 2:24 AM UTC

subleq wrote: post #3

A 1987 BBS would not ask for an email address, would it?

I'm not sure. I do remember a friend with a Tandy 1000 and CompuServe having email back then.

I don't recall BBS systems requiring email for registration. Most of the ones I went to a few years later (early 90s) didn't require registration at all.

Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

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Post by tacroqueen » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 2:31 AM UTC

ipcress_file wrote: post #6

subleq wrote: post #3

A 1987 BBS would not ask for an email address, would it?

I'm not sure. I do remember a friend with a Tandy 1000 and CompuServe having email back then. I don't recall BBS systems requiring email for registration. Most of the ones I went to a few years later (early 90s) didn't require registration at all.

CompuServe was not a BBS in the typical use of the term. And anyway CompuServe did not have an SMTP gateway until a bit later, 1989. They had their own closed system with their infamous octal User IDs eg: 74661,130. BBSes with direct internet email relays were always a rarity until the 90s, when BBSes were rapidly on the decline. And much more prevalent were relay systems such as FidoNet, RelayNet and StormNet.

The easiest way to have access to email and the internet in the 80s was via a university shell account or certain larger industry and defense employers.

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Post by drewcoo » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 2:32 AM UTC

subleq wrote: post #3

A 1987 BBS would not ask for an email address, would it?

First, you're right.

Second, and more important: finally, an un-obnoxious, non-political use for fact-checking.

Who's going to build crowd-sourced Snopes for ChatGPT?

Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

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Post by alchemist1e9 » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 2:44 AM UTC

Why is this surprising anyone at this point?

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Post by Method-X » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 2:49 AM UTC

keyle wrote: post #4

Sidenote, thanks for showing me sharegpt... Often you want to show something and screenshots are such a terrible way to go. I don't understand why OpenAI doesn't have a share icon with a pretty print html link. Hey OpenAI, that'd be a good idea?

Definitely agree. Honestly though, I think it's because their servers are literally melting right now. Once they have that under control, they will add viral features.