Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 3 weeks agoNo it doesn’t understand the question. It collects a series of letters and words that are strung together in a particular order because that’s what you typed, then it sifts through a mass of collected data and to find the most common or likely string of letters and words that follow and spits them out.
msprout@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
i find it’s a lot healthier to think of generative AI as a search engine for text.
stray@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Search engine is one of my main uses. Traditional search engines are worse than they used to be at a basic text search, and ChatGPT has the added bonus of being able to parse complex text and “figure out” what you mean when describing something that you don’t have a name for. You have to ask it for sources rather than just reading whatever it generates, and/or do traditional searches on the keywords it provides.