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The thing about ChatGPT, I don't know if the answer is wrong or made up. I have a friend who helps me with Swedish and he isn't a language tutor - so sometimes he asks ChatGPT to explain something I've asked him. The crucial difference is that he's knowledgeable enough on the matter to vet the quality and then pass the information to me. If he or I were to just ask ChatGPT without any verification, then I would not be able to trust the answer.

It's like P vs NP. There's tons of questions I get during my job that googling is not enough to answer. Whereas asking chatgpt yields results that are then easily verifiable with some googling.

No.

People pasting full llm outputs into help forum responses has been one of the most annoying trends.

If you can’t do more than what a llm would say, you’re already replaceable.

I don't like the idea of telling people (even smugly at worst, if it's used the way LMGTFY was, and as the tagline[1] implies) to just ask ChatGPT instead of humans.

LMGTFY returned human results that weren't SEO rubbish at the time for the most part, which you could classify yourself (or by others) as trustworthy or not. ChatGPT itself still sometimes hallucinates on pretty basic information and other users don't get exactly the same result as you.

[1] "Someone else asked ChatGPT for you. Appreciate it."

If you don’t know that the google search or llm will respond with what will help them, then it’s directly against the purpose these exist for: the questioner put zero effort for a trivial answer, and you know that.

> If you don’t know that the google search or llm will respond with what will help them

More or less by definition, you cannot know what the LLM will say.

To be fair, if you send someone a LMGTFY link, there's a very high chance the top few results will be LLM generated, but with some outdated model.

Never liked LMGTFY because it was always used in a snarky manner. But at least it somewhat was useful in that it mostly showed results as a springboard for the user to (hopefully) start learning how to parse information on the web.

This is taking it a step further to some form of intellectual learned helplessness.

Well this exceeded my expectations.

https://letmegptthatforyou.com/a/wcDtF

What exactly were your expectations? The answer I got was as snarky as it was wrong:

> Oh, you must have really put on your detective hat for this one! Let’s see... the word "Strawberry" has 2 letter R's in it. But hey, next time, maybe just try searching for the answer before calling for backup! Your keyboard has a search bar, not just a place to rest your hands!

> But hey, next time, maybe just try searching for the answer before calling for backup! Your keyboard has a search bar, not just a place to rest your hands!

Whoa, now that's some truly next level "have you fucking tried?" snark[1] coming from a site designed to mock people that haven't fucking tried anything. I have to wonder if their prompt included "and be sure to mock the user for their laziness" or it arrived at that conclusion on its own?

1: snark and inaccuracy, :chefs_kiss: because a lot of keyboards for sure do not have a "search bar"

> I have to wonder if their prompt included "and be sure to mock the user for their laziness"

Probably. I checked the other queries and they were all snarky.

https://letmegptthatforyou.com/stats

https://letmegptthatforyou.com/a/PAZ26

LMGTFY was always slightly irritating, but this is another level. "Instead of answering, why don't you ask a magic robot to make up plausible-looking text?" Bloody hell.

foul: https://letmegptthatforyou.com/stats

There's not even a privacy notice on the website, is that legal?

IANAL, but my understanding of Privacy Policies is a promise the site makes to you about how they will constrain their otherwise unconstrained behavior (err, subject to otherwise enacted laws). Thus, without any "pinky swear" documents from any website, a visitor should assume the worst intentions in all cases at all times. It doesn't mean the sites will behave badly, but it for sure means they reserve the right

ed: also, they must have heard your pleas because there's now one that does what I said: reserves all rights https://letmegptthatforyou.com/privacy#:~:text=No%20Privacy-...

Probably missed opportunity to add authoritative answer and give a feedback loop to gpt

Wow this is even more obnoxious than the already insufferable LMGTFY.

Back when we were smug asking people to just fn google stuff, we would be right in that they could find a correct answer out there.

Today, everyone's dad work at Nintendo. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> Today, everyone's dad work at Nintendo. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just so happen to run an old online fan made Pokemon game where people can be banned for misbehavior (e.g. cheating). Let's just say I can confirm this sentiment.

I really try hard not to be down on stuff like this, to let it pass uncommented, but the mere creation of this site is evidence that creator missed the point of the original that they derived it from.

lol it's made with Claude

Still a GPT with Chat though.

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