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Which person or persons specifically are you referring to?

Every other day, a poster comments how they make presentations or write code using chatgpt. Just in another thread, someone posted how chatgpt solved their coding problem...which a quick google search would have solved as well, as others in the replies to it pointed out.

Whenever I've used chatgpt I was impressed at the surface level, but digging deeper into a convo always turned up circular HS tier BS'ing. The fact that so many people online and on HN are saying chatgpt is astounding and revolutionary are just betraying that that such HS-essay level BS is convincing to them, and it's somewhat of a depressing though that so many people are so easy striken by a confidence trick.

I have been using ChatGPT successfully for coding tasks for the last two months. It's often faster than a Google search because it delivers the code, can explain it, and can write a unit test.

>which a quick google search would have solved as well,

You mean 'may' have solved that. Google is becoming a bullshit generator for SEO farms and spitting out ads at such a rate it can be near useless for some questions.

Now the real question is, can we tell when Google or GPT is dumping bullshit on us.

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