I am what is known as an early adopter, I try all the new shit, I was on Twitter early and got banned for being a Nazi or something when if you said anything anyone disagreed with you were a fascist.
Chat GPT is something that I have been playing with, 3.5 is as dumb as a plank, If OpenAI wanted to convince me that upgrading to 4 was a good idea they would have made 3.5 interesting enough that it was useful for more than creating outlines.
Here are my concerns.
Chat GPT cannot count, it cannot follow instructions and rehashes the same content in numerous areas, I tried writing blogs about photography, web development, carpentry and more. As a brainstorming device it’s good, to get an outline it’s accep[table, but as far as trusting it with creating original content that needs as much effort to edit and fact check as it would take me to do it from scratch anyway.
In the ever changing, fast paced world yadda yadda is one of it’s gotos. I wonder how many people are posting exactly the same AI generated shite, because they can’t be arsed to actually check it.
IT’s a boon for the spam content creator, but for the person serious about his business< I am not convinced, Convince me.

  • SheddingCorporate@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The people saying ChatGPT revolutionized their business are of 2 camps:

    1. People who use it to “help”. It gets you started quickly - like you mentioned, it’s good at creating first drafts of outlines, helping you brainstorm. It’s not (yet) able to really craft good content, but it’ll definitely speed things up. I know people who are using it as an online helper for their consultancy businesses because it’s so good at the brainstorming.
    2. People who are really not good at writing. For them, the boilerplate that ChatGPT churns out is miles better than their own efforts. AND it’s quick. So think someone in a third world country trying to pitch services to people in the west: their written English may be good by local standards but sounds stilted or even downright wrong to native English speakers. ChatGPT is life changing for that person.

    The bottom line is, it’s not a panacea. The buzz is deserved in some scenarios, but can be very misleading. You cannot (yet) trust it to do all your writing for you. BUT, keep using it, and I predict within a few years, it or another LLM will be actually good enough to do a lot of the work you’re doing right now.