Comment on How do people find good information on the internet these days?
AnAngryAlpaca@lemm.ee 10 months ago
ChatGPT for general knowledge and programming questions. Mostly straight to the point answers without 500 word drivel and 6 ad blocks on a single page for a 3 line answer you find on most blogs…
AProfessional@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Literally the worst source for anything…
It has no understanding, it just craps out things that look right, absolutely awful for code generation beyond boilerplate.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Eh, I found it quite useful in giving me relatively well known information. As for code, it’s great at telling me what functions and such do without having to traverse the documentation for a library and such, and also explaining stuff I am confused about. It is faster and more convenient for a lot of stuff, as long as you double check important info (but you have to do that anyway, never use a single source etc etc).
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Its more like its only as smart as the average person… Which isnt that high of a bar so yeah for anything even mildly specific its dogshit
AProfessional@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It isn’t “smart”, it’s a language model.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean, it doesn’t even produce compilable code half the time. Even if you give it feedback about which error it produces, it might not fix it after 3-4 corrections. I’ve ended up in loops where it cycles through incorrect suggestions, apparently forgetting that all are incorrect.