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highplainsdem

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8. It isn't at all like any other tool. It was trained illegally/unethically, it dumbs down users by discouraging

Reply to Disaffected (Reply #4)

Fri May 23, 2025, 11:02 PM

May 23

critical thinking and creativity, its output can change users' opinions with them hardly being aware of it (they've done studies on this), it gathers more and more data as you use it with that data often sold to third parties, and what it generates is simply fake. Fake thinking. Fake writing. Fake art.

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Bye Bye, Google AI [View all] Celerity May 23 OP

Thank you malaise May 23 #1

yw Celerity May 23 #2

I have found Google AI Overview and ChatGPT anciano May 23 #3

I use ChatGPT quite frequently. Disaffected May 23 #4

It isn't at all like any other tool. It was trained illegally/unethically, it dumbs down users by discouraging highplainsdem May 23 #8

You forgot about its resource-heavy usage misanthrope May 23 #9

True. And I also forgot to mention the harm done when people use the bot as a friend, romantic highplainsdem May 24 #22

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No. I'm quite happy to write without getting paid for it when there's good reason to do so. I don't know highplainsdem May 24 #12

Wow, that is one lofty equine you got there. Disaffected May 24 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author fujiyamasan May 24 #15

We're not talking about way back when. ChatGPT was released only 2-12 years ago, and the theft of highplainsdem May 24 #19

I do not trust them, and if SOP here on DU becomes a bunch of AI posts, this board will not just be unreliable, but IF Celerity May 23 #5

+1,000,000. DU would also lose most if not all of its regulars. highplainsdem May 23 #7

Use of "AI" here will make me go away (stop conspiring in the background!). mucholderthandirt May 24 #16

Already happening RoseTrellis May 24 #21

Those AI summaries are hurting the websites those companies stole the data from. They don't always highplainsdem May 23 #6

I'm genuinely curious about what or how others perceive generative AI searches to be superior... Hugin May 24 #14

Frankly its better than the rubbish search engine normal Google has become JCMach1 May 24 #10

You should be careful with extensions like that Renew Deal May 24 #17

This +1 Emile May 24 #18

This extension was written by Avram Piltch of Tom's Hardware, formerly with Toms Guide and Laptop Mag, and highplainsdem May 24 #20