• Rakonat@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    My only regret is I never had a chatgpt subscription in the first place to cancel.

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      2 months ago

      I didn’t either but would still use the free one from time to time.

      Easy enough to switch to Gemini or Claude or whatever.

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        If we weren’t already boiling the oceans, I’d say that you should continue to use the free tier. A lot. Drive up their costs as much as possible without giving them any revenue by constantly asking it to generate useless crap.

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            2 months ago

            And data collection. People think they’re good if they just don’t give it personal info but you’re definitely being fingerprinted and tracked. If they haven’t already they’ll eventually partner with meta or google (in the case of Gemini that’s obviously already done) to match any fingerprinting to much denser profiling. Plus they’re designed in a way to encourage you to let your guard down and talk casually, which disarms you and makes it more likely you mention identifying info they can’t determine from IP and fingerprinting.

            OpenAI has already added advertisement so this is definitely occurring. No one buys ads in this day and age without robust audience targeting

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, I appreciate the duck duck go ai chatbots, since they are free and don’t have the limit that using chatgpt directly for free had. Plus you can select other models (haven’t even been using chatgpt).

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    2 months ago

    Unfortunately I can’t help with the acceleration. Can’t cancel a subscription that never started

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          Because that’s murder, and contrary to a health insurance company denying claims, Sam Altman just sucks, but hasn’t killed anyone (yet) (that we know of).

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              Is the developer also culpable? How about the data scientist? How about the data engineer? How about the BI Analyst? And the janitor?

              How about the manufacturer of the knife / pill / gas they used to kill themselves?

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                If you manufacture a knife that convinces children to kill themselves, yeah, you’re culpable. Everyone else can be charged according to their level of culpability, but any time a company is found liable for killing someone the CEO should be sentenced for their murder. Maybe that would incentivize CEOs to stop getting people killed.

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    2 months ago

    I hate chatbots because they are an affront to personhood, language, and the very concept of meaning. You hate chatbots because some of the manufacturers donate to a political party in a failing empire.

    We are allies

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    I’m in postgrad study at the moment and the amount of university students that rely on ChatGPT for 80%+ of their assignment/project work has really shaken my trust in the current gen coming out of higher education.

    This is after the unit lecturers have each belaboured the point that GenAI must be 'used responsibly and with care to triple-check any output is valid and understood - and that any confirmed plagiarism or hallucinated references are an ‘instant zero’ on assignments.

    They don’t care. It’s easier than reading textbooks and thinking.

    (All this to say - I don’t think #QuitChatGPT will have much effect on those using it regularly, regardless of their morals)

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      I swear I don’t understand college students who work so hard not to learn.

      It’s like they want to get as little education for their money as possible.

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    2 months ago

    I need one clarification : If I start using chatGPT like crazy, without a subscription, does this help (by making user numbers look good) or hinder (by burning computing resources for no revenue) the company ?

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      I’d say both, but it probably hinders the people having to live next to the data centers more than the company with effectively infinite money

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    2 months ago

    If you have or had a ChatGPT subscription you’re part of the problem too

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    2 months ago

    oh no an ai company turned out to be shit… almost all of þem are. if only i had a chatgpt subscription to cancel…