I just cancelled 👍🏽
I used it for assisting with grammar and spelling as well as helping me figure out Obsidian.
Gonna cancel. Fuck Altman and fuck PEDOnald and fuck everyone involved. Moving over to Claude.
(Sorry I can’t afford to pay actual editors. I make pennies.)
What did you switch to?
I have barely used any of the AI products that have been around for the last few years. But what little I have used them for they’ve been fairly adequate for my desires I can’t imagine paying for that though.
Like I use co-pilot (because management insist we use it for something), to rewrite emails into corporate speak. And I guess it’s nice not to have to do that anymore but it’s not something I’d pay for.
I just don’t understand these AI bros I really don’t.
I’m a programmer, AI is really good at programming and I use it everyday at work. But you really need to be careful and read and understand EVERY LINE the AI gave you and judge if it’s correct architecturally, maintainable, fits the direction of the product etc etc etc.
I let it write tests and mundane mapping functions mostly, but it’s still pretty useful as an “assistant”.
The tech bros all come from this programming world and I think they got a bit too enthousiastic about the technology. An LLM is not a human brain.
People paid for ChatGPT?
Last I saw they have something like 900,000,000 active users with around 50,000,000 on a paid plan of some form.
They’re just gonna suckle harder at that MIC teat.
Technology under capitalism is researched and developed for the sake of violent control.
Yep, they’ve already shown who will bend the knee and slob the orange-tinged knob.
sam altman is con artist. his whole career is a scam:
People pay for GPT?!
Wait, you guys actually pay for stuff?
I hate chatbots because they are an affront to personhood, language, and the very concept of meaning. You hate chatbots because some of the manufacturers donate to a political party in a failing empire.
We are allies
I hate chatbots because they don’t work. If any of this technology actually operated as advertised I would be ecstatic. But none of it does.
Not only has AI failed to give us a warp drive, it’s also failed to do my very simple job for me.
They’re quite good at generating text that sounds reasonably like speech to people. Problem is, that’s not actually useful.
They’d make excelent politicians.
Sorry. I can’t do that. I can’t cancel my subscription to Chatgpt. I just can’t…
…because I never subscribed in the first place.
Can we get some citations besides an image someone posted? I did a cursory look and couldn’t substantiate any of this. The only real news is Nvidia saying their last round of investments in openAI and Anthropic would probably be their last.
Genuine question. I know it’s fun to hate on AI slop and openAI in general, but there are enough real facts, don’t feel like we need any made up ones to win folks over
I’d say the news that they lost their biggest source of financing is more than enough.
All claims appear in this artcle.
Thank you for at least finding an article. I sadly have to agree that this is an op-ed piece and that it does differ a bit from the picture.
Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go and cancel your subscription. I personally just don’t feel that we need to resort to exaggerated or false claims. Actual, verifiable facts are pretty damning on their own, the donations and super pacs alone are enough reasons to justify boycotting them. That doesn’t even include their defense contracts or ICE contracts. Heck, the environmental impact and the impact on consumer goods’ prices are enough on their own.
But we don’t need to make stuff up or spin it in a way to exaggerate a message to support an agenda. We get enough of that shit from AI slop articles making news up as it is.
That article is an opinion piece, which is stated at the top. Then if you follow the link to what Sam Altman said
Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘screwed up’ the writing quality on ChatGPT 5.2 – and promises future versions won’t ‘neglect’ it.
So right there we have some exaggeration or misinterpretation. This place is being like r/conservative where anything goes as long as it fits our ideals and I’m not down for that.
I’m not defending OpenAI. Im defending that we don’t spread misinformation. Plenty of actual shit as the other person said.
1987: AI products have generally been a disappointment
40 years later…
Can’t cancel a subscription I never had.
Ahh man, I never once used chatgpt cause I have a brain. I wish I could cancel it just to be one more person to cancel, but I knew it was a scam when it came out years ago.
I tried it a few times because a coworker uses it for everything and insisted I try it.
Once I asked to compare some products we use at work, and it summarized their advertising campaigns such that everything was the best, brightest, fastest, and most excellent at everything.
Next I asked it for some epidemiological data…which it successfully gave me from 1927
LLMs like ChatGPT do have their uses and I don’t think we can say they’re absolutely scams. As someone living in another country, they help me proofread my comms and documents so I don’t have any spelling mistakes or weird grammar in them.
Likewise, for coding they can find logical mistakes quickly and are usually good at translating from one programming language to another. So I can see their value as assistants of sorts, but the new hype where all human labour is being replaced by AI makes it very difficult to support these enterprises.
I draw the hard line at using AI to generate content/writing/software that other people will be exposed to without being explicitly warned and informed first. I hope you’re slapping GENERATED/MADE/EDITED USING AI headers and watermarks on all that stuff.
I think it’s probably fine as long as you wrote that stuff yourself and simply had AI parse through it to check or correct anything you might have missed, which is how I mostly use it.
For code generation, AI is still far too unreliable, and I don’t like the tone it gives to my emails because it doesn’t sound like me. So I just have it correct my weird grammar or spelling sometimes.
they can find logical mistakes quickly
I just had a lovely afternoon of trying to unwind a mess someone vibe coded their way into with Opus 4.6… Which I have to mention model and version every time or else someone comes along and says ‘Well Opus 4.6 won’t make mistakes!’ when it absolutely does and I’m so tired of people overstating how good Opus is.
So far they create the mistakes quickly and when it happens they generally are at a loss on what to do, and it becomes messy because the vibe coder went way past the point of failure and now I have to extricate what the hell they were doing…
Though I will say today the ‘review my commit’ feature did catch one issue legitimately, though it flagged about 5 others erroneously and in a couple of cases really really wanted to change correct code to do exactly the wrong thing for some reason.
The codegen can be useful if watched carefully, but things will happen like after porting dozens of functions mostly fine to a replacement library, for some reason it decided to delete a function and replace it with an if/else chain of every test case and hard code passing results rather than porting the function to the new library (which upon manual inspection was just a two line change)…
Which is why you use it simply as a proofreader and then evaluate the mistakes it brought up. You don’t blindly trust it or worse, use it to write everything from scratch, because then you’re just going to deliver shit code.
I see people hating on AI for things that are far more the fault of how people use it than of the technology itself. AI is extremely over hyped, but if you understand it for what it is, it’s a fairly useful tool.
How do I insert a “I’m doing my part” Starship Troopers gif here?
