Comment by sharemywin | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sharemywin | Hacker News Reader

My comments are about ChatGPT and LLMs specifically. Stable Diffusion type AIs seem like they ruin stock photography but make getting an image way cheaper so I'm not sure how to feel about that.

As for ChatGPT: I just don't use it that much anymore. I played with it alot. and it was kinda fun, but when I tried to do anything much more productive with it, it just wasn't that much help.

LangChain and AgentGPT looked more interesting, but when I watched some videos about them on youtube they didn't seem to add accomplish much and got stuck in loops.

The biggest problem is it's just not that reliable.

I think there's an last mile type problem with it.

Also, there's a governance issue with it. Who gets to decide how to use it or how it works. I've seen no democratic options for it. And a free un-encumbered version seems more dangerous than a corporate controlled one.

Who says you're not just using it wrong?

I think it's a false assumption that because YOU can't use it for productivity-efforts, no one can.

Are you using it to replace large portions of your workflow? enlighten me.

I could. I don't have the most fancy job. A lot of internal/external communications. I work with words. I could easily use ChatGPT to generate a lot of my content, and save time by simply proof reading.

A lot of smaller marketing-agencies would be able to automate the generation of bullshit ad-copy for all their smaller clients, seeing as quality in that area is low in general.

There are so many jobs what could benefit from the use of ChatGPT. I know enough coding to formulate a prompt that helps me build small scripts. I got ChatGPT to build me a Scrapy-spider the other day.

I guess I was show my point of view which is different from it's doing most of my job(or taking it) or the other extreme of it's a worthless piece of shit and can't do anything right. I was hyped about it, it helps me about 5-10% but that's about it after all is said and done.

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