ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users

Ok, yaml is fair game for a LLM. Whitespace sensitive language should die in a fire, markup or otherwise.

You were a liability

Regular search engines did that 20 years ago, without blowing out the power grid.

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.

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

This is primarily because search engines have become so unreliable and enshittified that they are useless. It’s not a mark in favor of AI as much as a reminder of how bad search engines have become.

For the record I do the same thing after failing to find anything on DuckDuckGo after multiple attempts. Maybe I should give Kagi a try, but AI is making the entire internet worse, so I feel pessimistic about that, too.

What's it like working in a field where you are completely incompetent?

You might be hindering yourself.

Developers took 19% longer to finish tasks using AI tools - https://www.techspot.com/news/108651-experienced-developers-working-ai-tools-take-longer-complete.html

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<a single tear drops down the cheek>

Aw looks like somebody's cranky because they can't ask chatbot how to wipe their butt.

Hopefully they'll get your nanny online again soon.

Weird that you need a digital dumbass that's constantly wrong to help you out with your life...

whats the matter? need the computer to think for you? need it to fuck your wife? is babys toy broken?

Tell the people using it ON us to stop then.

Gotta love how the Reddit and now Lemmy community is constantly against every single kind of technological advancement and they constantly end up being wrong a few years down the line.

This is just how businesses work. Thats absolutely the plan.

Conspiracies are outlandish. What you described is fact.

I wish nobody used terrible services when the only thing they offer is convenience yet here we are.

That is a new saying for me. +1

I find it detrimental to my productivity when integrated into an editor/IDE. I've found the "autocomplete" causes subtle bugs that I end up overlooking because I'm trying to go fast and putting too much trust in the generated lines/snippets. Tracing down these bugs becomes a huge time-sink. I do use chatbots in the browser for various things; mostly as a kind of "search" for alternative ways of doing things, frameworks, libraries, and algorithms. Agentic vibe-coding is ok for small one-off tools/scripts you wouldn't need to maintain, IMO.

the thing is, it's not 100% bad, but it's being crammed into everything because the capitalists want to sell sell sell. sometimes what is made sucks, and will definitely contribute to a dead internet.

but i also lean on it to generate repetitive bits of code. i still read it all and tweak considerably and it's cool to make my gpu do work in this way.

You can tell who's going to grow up into the current generations tech illiterate elderly based on how people talk about AI today.

My main use case is "hey, I need to make a change to this system I touch once a year. The documentation is thorough, dense, and I don't know where to look. What button do I push to do Y?"

How about a one pager?

But it said it was up, so it must be true.

Hey, you and me both; sweet and salty is an excellent combination. But some people have not yet seen the light and the glory that is pineapple on pizza. Goddamn heathens.

I like Japanese pizza

The chat not that says Musk is a super genius and has a great body? Hmm.

Grok. Didn't expect that. I like using Lumo, Protons encrypted & anonymous conversations. Swiss is one of the only country that their own government can't subpoena your conversations. They don't care about copywrite laws & well I use them for a lot, worth the cost of admission!

Haha! This us why i never ask it to do anything serious.

Site note: GPT does also not give reliable information. (altough I do agree Grok is worse.)

Poe's law 🥴

Yeah, I feel like sarcasm is not something lemmings are good to decode... Learned it the hard way.

I've yet to detect even a hint of right-wing / nazi bias on Grok. I get that it's a popular narrative but it simply just doesn't hold true according to my experience. It's not that much different from ChatGPT really - just slightly less restricted.