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ChatGPT is useful, but I’ve seen people get more wary about using it over time. It’s very good at making stuff that looks correct without being correct. That’s fine for a school assignment, but people hate looking dumb by having silly things slip through.

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Rather than copying its output for publishing, I assume most people are using it to have conversations with, and ask questions, probe the answers, discover new information, research or use that information, and follow up with the conversation over time. That's how I use it and it's now my first step before Google, for certain types of questions or thoughts. I don't see that utility really going away.

Sure, but that’s a long way from the initial hype which is my point.

I simply don’t recall anything else where most people’s opinions spiked then fell so rapidly before.

The hallucination meme has far exceeded the reality, at least for GPT4.

That said, it would be insane to use it at work to generate content in a domain you're not an expert in. It is an amazing productivity tool, but it does not change the reality that faking expertise at work is always going to bite you.

A screwdriver is really dangerous. If you stick it into your eye you’ll go blind. It would be insane to do that. Such risks are probably not things that we as a society should let prevent us from having screwdrivers. Ditto for gpt.

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