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Same here, Youtube and Social Media algorithms driven by outrage to boost statistics, has made it unbearable for me to watch news or read it online, everything is framed and created with maximum outrage in mind.

I added a DNS level blocker on all news app and restricted youtube itself to stop myself from watching news no matter what, and I only use chatgpt advanced voice mode now and sometimes perplexity pro to get my news for the day, and ask questions, around news, I stopped reading everything news related outside of purely business and tech related articles curated and sent to me via either my rss feeds, or via newsletter, nothing else.

It feels amazing to get briefed on the days news by ChatGPT, i intuitively ask it stuff around what my interests are and nothing else.

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As someone who uses ChatGPT around topics I'm relatively experienced about, it seems absolutely insane to me to put your entire worldview in its hands.

Chat GPT likes to make up things.

It told me the other day that on a multiple hard drive/SSD system I could set secure boot on each drive independently.

Of course this is nonsense, since secure boot is set in the BIOS.

Whatever, Chat GPT got it's engagement metrics.

I'm going to predict within the next few years someone's going to lose a billion dollars relying on Chat GPT or another LLM.

It's still at the level of an energetic junior engineer, sure it wants to crank out a lot of code to look good, but you need to verify everything it does.

I was game jamming with a friend last weekend and I realized he can manually write better code, lighter code, more effective code than I was having co-pilot write.

Which sounds safer, an elegant 50 line function, or 300 lines of a spaghetti code that appears to work right.

The manager( and above)level is all about AI though, let's cut staff and have AI fill in the gaps!

> I'm going to predict within the next few years someone's going to lose a billion dollars relying on Chat GPT or another LLM.

I strongly suspect this has already happened, possibly even multiple times. Some inbred oil sheikh fatfingering some insane sum of money because "the computer told me, and computers are always correct" is completely believable scenario. Now that I think about it, doesn't Line city fits it perfectly? :)

What will happen in the next few years is probably not just a cash loss, but some large industrial accident with dead people, due to relying on the LLM bullshit. Now that would make headlines (at least until next Truth Social post).

>Some inbred oil sheikh fatfingering some insane sum of money because "the computer told me, and computers are always correct" is completely believable scenario.

No need to degrade people, if anything the highest class with hop on the AI train. Why trust an expensive human when an LLM will give you unlimited "advice" ?

LLMs can serve as a fall guy, but what's the old IBM quote. Something like a computer will never be responsible for an executive decision.

Then again LLMS making stupid mistakes is the only thing keeping most of us employed

I read comments like these and feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Alice in Wonderland moment, truly. Like, we are all engineers here, even if just a little. Willingly and knowingly constraining your information intake to a random character generator is a bold move. Incomprehensible for me, but definitely bold :) .

I know it’s controversial i know sometimes it’s inaccurate i honestly don’t care anymore i just don’t want the outrage inducing news content / videos / etc.

News is no longer the same everything is structured to maximize clicks , reactions, etc. Most news is misinformation or ideologically slanted anyways i just ask it to curate from feeds im interested in now, ive shifted to it only a few weeks ago, honestly its not as bad as people here are commenting it out to be.

i get it sounds dystopian but so does what i used to do previously. I dont need to know everything about everything, business & tech news i still read and watch myself as it tends to be fairly pleasant and inviting.

For me this is how the cons compare:

- Occasional inaccuracy from AI summaries < constant psychological damage from outrage algorithms

- Missing some nuance < being manipulated into anger and anxiety daily

- Imperfect information filtering > perfect exposure to toxic information delivery

I didn’t want to make this change i had to for my mental health sorry. Chatgpt can hallucinate a ton , claude is way more accurate and fair , i experiment with both.

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