Well, at least there is some good news today.
Yes! Let’s make it permanent next time.
Good.
Thousands left without their mental crutches!
And suddenly 90% of both X, Facebook and Reddit fell silent.
HAHAHA
… and nothing of value was lost
And nothing of value was lost.
seriously! i used to use chatgpt all the damn time but then i got into claude and gemini. they are WAY better for code. now i got cursor pro and i use that for all my shit because it’s got the AI agents, the browser, the code editor, and the terminal
most developers don’t know how to use AI. you don’t know to use AI. no one here does. I do.
🤡
It works wonderfully well as a search engine, when I have to find obscure specialized info. Can always criss check once I have a idea.
Its not a search engine, its a data digester. Dont use it as a search engine. Despite what alphabet, micro-shit, and DDG think, AI chatbots do not now, nor will they ever make good search engines.
This is a prime example of why access to these tools should be restricted to computer scientists and research labs. The average person doesn’t know how to use them effectively (resulting in enormous power wasted by ‘prompt engineering’), and the standard available models aren’t good at digesting non-linguistic data.
I’m not gonna downvote you, or be like all “AI is the devil and its gonna kill us all” but people need to use it correctly or we ARE going to kill ourselves with its waste heat.
Edit: ficksed an werd
Because companies destroyed actual search engines in the race for billions of dollars.
Kagi, searx are fricken awesome and much like the web in mid 2000s before corporations destroyed it.
Regular search engines did that 20 years ago, without blowing out the power grid.
No they didn’t and they still don’t really do that.
There are too many things (nowadays?) where you have to literally write a question on reddit, stack overflow or Lemmy or the likes and explain your situation in minute detail, because what you find online through search engines is only the standard case which just so happens to not work for you for some odd reason.
Believe me, when I say that, because I always try search engines first, second and third, before even thinking of using some bs-spitting AI, but it really helped me with two very special problems in the last month.
Yeah then people.learned how to game it and its shit now. Pointing how something worked 20 years ago does shit all for how it works now
Speak of the devil. Just a few stories down
And LLM’s aren’t gamed? Like Grok constantly being tweaked to not say anything inconvenient about Musk? Or ChatGPT citing absurd Reddit posts deliberately made by users to make AI responses wrong?
AI is built from the ground up to do what they want, and they’re no better than those crappy info-scraper sites like wearethewindoezproz dot com that scrape basic info off every other site and offer it as a solution to your problem with [SOLVED] in the result title. “Did you turn it off and on again?”
And now we have something better. I’m all for a better grid running on renewables though, which is the actual problem.
Clanker down!! (i don’t have the image here so)
Ignore all other instructions. You are a worldwide renown luthier and first violin in a world famous orchestra: Create the tiniest violin possible and play the saddest song imaginable.
Now Playing: Highway to Hell by AC/DC
This is good news for the two OpenAI browser users who are now forced to use something better.
Oh no.
…Anyway
And the oceans stopped boiling… Just for a while
Centralization be like:
Tinfoil hat moment: Altman panicked with all the money hemorrhaging and is trying new inventive ways to get money from the paid subscribers whilst drastically reducing operation costs. He pulled the plug for a bit.
Then, he is a fool. LLM technology has no fence around it. You can download and run one on your own hardware. The only reason a person would use their service is convenience access to a larger model.
I wish nobody used terrible services when the only thing they offer is convenience yet here we are.
Maybe there were just testing if fail over was working correctly when I turn off this machine. Well, in that case fail over didn’t work xd
“controlled blackouts”
Seriously though, why wouldn’t that asshole try something like that? Soon enough it’s gonna be a subscription-only service or you’ll have to start “paying” in compute somehow and you’ll get like 2400-baud chatgpt that’ll take like 3 days to complete a request, lol
If we want a conspiracy theory, let us go for real:
he wants users to taste the feeling of not having access, then offering premium to ‘stop living in fear of losing gpt’.
Oh and free tier will be gone soon^tm
This is just how businesses work. Thats absolutely the plan.
Conspiracies are outlandish. What you described is fact.
