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Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by Aerbil313 »

LordDragonfang wrote: post #225
Paddyz wrote: post #190

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> This is genuinely Well, I have a good guess which of those models is your favorite. I'm not even saying that Claude wrote this - because it still reads as human written, and it's not badly written - but it has just enough Claude voice in it that it feels like the thing where humans inevitably start talking like the people (or simulacrums thereof) that they interact with most. (Heck, you did "It's not X it's Y" twic…

You're not crazy. I feel it might be a case of LLM-brain, a person who interacts with LLMs so much they start talking like them.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by tombert »

mlrtime wrote: post #223
tombert wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never really understood people's need to post these cynical doomer posts. "Things can't be perfect so don't bother doing anything ever I am so smart". Will a few dozen people canceling their accounts change anything? Probably not, but at least we know that we're not actively giving our money to Sam Altman. There's not a lot in the world that any of us have control over. Most of us aren't billionaires who can buy a…

Do you understand that this news is not universally disliked and some people are happy to keep their subscriptions? And this thread like most of reddit just becomes a hive-mind of me-too comments. Downvoting anything that goes against the common theme into [flagged].

I didn't downvote anyone here and I really only ever downvote outright spam or shitposting.

> And this thread like most of reddit just becomes a hive-mind of me-too comments.

Yeah it's a "hive mind", a bunch of very technical people who actually kind of understand computers and the implications of OpenAI's actions don't like it. It's so "hive mind" for people who actually understand why something is bad to think it's bad. You're right to call that out because people should instead just have different opinions so they can be different.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by surgical_fire »

LordDragonfang wrote: post #225
Paddyz wrote: post #190

[dead]

> This is genuinely Well, I have a good guess which of those models is your favorite. I'm not even saying that Claude wrote this - because it still reads as human written, and it's not badly written - but it has just enough Claude voice in it that it feels like the thing where humans inevitably start talking like the people (or simulacrums thereof) that they interact with most. (Heck, you did "It's not X it's Y" twic…

I spoke things such as "this is genuinely" for a long time before LLMs.

I am worried people will think I use LLMs in my posts. This sort of sucks.

I am also not a native English speaker, which doubly sucks in this case; while I am fluent, I not always know what sounds natural in English.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by giancarlostoro »

duskwuff wrote: post #101
giancarlostoro wrote: post #97

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I have a 24GB Macbook Pro. I will note, do get the 'Pro' models, the Mac Mini and the Macbook Air do not have internal fans. The Macbook Pro has an internal fan, and the Mac Studio (bigger Mac Mini) has a fan. If you get a Mini, you might want to get one of those docks that cools the Mini. Your hardware will get very hot very quickly. Also, because Apple in their infinite wisdom despite giving you a fan, very lazily…

The Mac Mini does have a fan. It's very quiet, but it's there.

So is it just like the Pro? Do I need to buy the fan software for my wife's mini too? Ridiculous...

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by giancarlostoro »

gambiting wrote: post #195
giancarlostoro wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a 24GB Macbook Pro. I will note, do get the 'Pro' models, the Mac Mini and the Macbook Air do not have internal fans. The Macbook Pro has an internal fan, and the Mac Studio (bigger Mac Mini) has a fan. If you get a Mini, you might want to get one of those docks that cools the Mini. Your hardware will get very hot very quickly. Also, because Apple in their infinite wisdom despite giving you a fan, very lazily…

>> I will note, do get the 'Pro' models, the Mac Mini and the Macbook Air do not have internal fans I have a base model M4 Mac Mini and it absolutely does have a fan inside it.

I must have assumed it did not, since my wife's Mini never sounded off the fan, it was hot beyond the norm to the touch, I stopped using it for inference. If the standard model Minis do have fans, I might reconsider instead of a Studio.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by gambiting »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #246
gambiting wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> I will note, do get the 'Pro' models, the Mac Mini and the Macbook Air do not have internal fans I have a base model M4 Mac Mini and it absolutely does have a fan inside it.

I must have assumed it did not, since my wife's Mini never sounded off the fan, it was hot beyond the norm to the touch, I stopped using it for inference. If the standard model Minis do have fans, I might reconsider instead of a Studio.

Yeah if you look at this timestamp you can see the fan, to be fair the M4 Pro has a slightly beefier heatsink but both have a fan.

https://youtu.be/rtdGxBeSkz8?t=123&si=r54gm2koTu7K5hlt

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by Gander5739 »

surgical_fire wrote: post #243
LordDragonfang wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is genuinely Well, I have a good guess which of those models is your favorite. I'm not even saying that Claude wrote this - because it still reads as human written, and it's not badly written - but it has just enough Claude voice in it that it feels like the thing where humans inevitably start talking like the people (or simulacrums thereof) that they interact with most. (Heck, you did "It's not X it's Y" twic…

I spoke things such as "this is genuinely" for a long time before LLMs. I am worried people will think I use LLMs in my posts. This sort of sucks. I am also not a native English speaker, which doubly sucks in this case; while I am fluent, I not always know what sounds natural in English.

I think it's hard to say what sounds natural, and what is a stylistic flaw that is nevertheless natural to say. For instance in your comment you say

> for a long time before LLMs.

The double use of the sound "fore" (in "for" and "before") can sound jarring.

Similarly "This sort of" feels a bit off to me, though I'm not sure a could definitively say why. Maybe it's a bit of a garden-path sentence; it looks like the noun "sort" before becoming the adverb "sort of". Or maybe this is just some kind of peculiarity I've picked up and your writing is perfectly natural.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by AlexCoventry »

AlexCoventry wrote: post #177

Just asking for information: Why do we want to cancel our ChatGPT subscription? Didn't OpenAI demand exactly the same safety terms from the DoD as Anthropic did? > "Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems," Altman said. https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/pentagon-openai-safety-red-..…

This was wishful thinking. I have canceled my ChatGPT subscription.
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