ChatGPT: Don’t Ask Me, I Didn’t *Make* This Shit
Right. So, some people – and by “people” I mean the easily impressed masses – are still obsessed with ChatGPT. Apparently, OpenAI keeps updating this glorified text predictor. The latest version (GPT-4o, because numbers are important, obviously) is faster, handles images *and* voice now, which is just…great. More ways for it to misunderstand you and generate garbage.
It’s still a large language model, meaning it spews out statistically probable word sequences based on the mountains of data they fed it. Don’t mistake it for actual intelligence; it’s a parrot with a PhD in plagiarism. They’re trying to make it more “human-like” – which is terrifying, frankly. Do we *really* need another digital entity pretending to care about our feelings?
They’ve got Teams versions now for businesses (surprise!), and they’re pushing this whole “custom GPTs” thing where you can build your own little chatbot slaves. Because automating repetitive tasks isn’t enough, we need personalized AI annoyances too. It costs money, naturally. Everything good does, or at least should.
Oh, and it still hallucinates facts. Still makes up sources. Still prone to being biased as hell. But hey, they added a “memory” feature so it can *remember* your previous conversations…so it can consistently hallucinate the same bullshit over and over again. Brilliant. They’re also trying to make it less likely to say offensive things, which is just censorship in disguise.
Basically, it’s a slightly more polished version of the same old hype machine. Don’t believe everything you read, especially if it comes from an AI. And for god’s sake, don’t trust it with anything important.
Source: TechCrunch – ChatGPT Everything You Need To Know
And a word of warning…
I once had to debug a script that was *entirely* generated by an early LLM. It took me three days, two bottles of scotch, and the burning desire to throw my monitor out the window. The code looked perfect on the surface, but it contained a subtle logic error that caused the entire system to crash every Tuesday at 3:17 PM. Don’t be fooled by appearances. These things are fundamentally broken.
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