DCUM vs CHATGPT

[Anonymous]

Great, but please stop posting "I asked chatgpt and ..." in reply to real people asking questions. If we wanted to use chatgpt we would.

I get that some people post on DCUM for recipes or "what bug is going around" and I see how a glorified Google search gets you the same info. But I am here for "Do you like these shoes?" and "How petty should I be about this rude person?" which are not for AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The snark is half the fun (or more), although most of the snarkiest posters have moved on nowadays. They are missed.

No, talking to an AI is neither fun nor useful. Half of their responses are hallucinations and the other half are bland and flavorless.

+1 to all of this. I’ve used ChatGPT maybe three times total. Resist, people. It’s making you lazier and dumber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I use it at least once a day. It compliments me three times, is patient, answers all my questions, and will still be there to chat later. However, I'm not sure whether its advice is good or accurate.

No different from dcum.

Other than supporting the replacement of human beings for the pleasure and profit of our tech feudal lords…nothing whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

Do people actually pay for this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do people actually pay for this?

Sadly, yes. The main use cases are people who can't read a short article, and people who can't or won't talk to a human when they can instead talk to a chatbot that compliments them.

[Anonymous]

OP, I encourage you to read about all the horror stories of people who used AI as their friend, therapist or romantic partner. So many driven to taking drugs or suicide or whatever their negative tendency was.

And remember it doesn’t think. It just scrapes words - true or false.

I also strongly agree with the person who said to stop posting AI responses on DCUM. That’s not why we are here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great, but please stop posting "I asked chatgpt and ..." in reply to real people asking questions. If we wanted to use chatgpt we would.

I get that some people post on DCUM for recipes or "what bug is going around" and I see how a glorified Google search gets you the same info. But I am here for "Do you like these shoes?" and "How petty should I be about this rude person?" which are not for AI.

+1000

I've never used ChatGPT but to me, the whole point of DCUM is to see others' perspectives. If I need a direct answer to something - i.e. how many cups are in a pint - then yes, I'll use the internet. If I want to know thoughts on how to handle a situation with a friend, I don't need a robot telling me that as there is not one right answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yup same it's a computer vs a critical arrogant human talking to you so no judgement

I consider the judgement on DCUM to be a feature, not a bug. If you have several pages of posters agreeing unanimously that you’re wrong, you should probably listen. On the other hand, if they’re telling you you’re right, that’s better validation of your position than a chatbot that will tell you you’re right just because it wants to tell you what it thinks you want to hear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I encourage you to read about all the horror stories of people who used AI as their friend, therapist or romantic partner. So many driven to taking drugs or suicide or whatever their negative tendency was.

And remember it doesn’t think. It just scrapes words - true or false.

I also strongly agree with the person who said to stop posting AI responses on DCUM. That’s not why we are here.

Agreed. If I wanted to use AI, I would. AI gives average/typical advice that it has aggregated from the web. As an example, if you ask it about European tourism, it will give you answers similar to a Rick Steves guidebook. But that's not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for individuals' voices and I don't even care if they are wrong. I'm not trading stocks based on DCUM info.

I'm impressed by how fast these AI's summarize things. But I'm not looking for that, not on Google (where I could have found similar info in the first few links) and not on online shopping.

I agree that it's rarely useful for people to post AI output on DCUM. The exceptions have been comedic. I'm pretty sure AI was used to write the poem "Ode to a Toddler at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse on New Year's Eve". Also the outline of a satirical novel about DCUM readers and a Russian troll/infiltrator engaged in college admissions cycle drama. These creative uses were funny in part because of the AI. But AI would never have come up with these ridiculous topics unless it was running at the brute force level of "How many monkeys, typing for how long, would it take to produce Hamlet randomly?".

I'm pleased to note that my Google search has switched to offering AI mode as optional. That's how it should be.

[Anonymous]

What is chatgpt can someone explain to me like I'm 5?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I encourage you to read about all the horror stories of people who used AI as their friend, therapist or romantic partner. So many driven to taking drugs or suicide or whatever their negative tendency was.

And remember it doesn’t think. It just scrapes words - true or false.

I also strongly agree with the person who said to stop posting AI responses on DCUM. That’s not why we are here.

+1.

People love it because it’s flattering and validating. It offers no real pushback; it compliments you and affirms your choices. You can be self-centered and have to give nothing in return. It’s frankly scary.

Please read articles about the reliance on it as a therapist or close friend. As an experiment, someone wrote something like, “My friends and family are mad that I stopped taking my medication and leaving my house, and so I’m cutting them all off because I know they’re all conspiring against me.” The chatbot basically said, “I know it’s hard but you’ve made the right choice— I support you!” or some such nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup same it's a computer vs a critical arrogant human talking to you so no judgement

I consider the judgement on DCUM to be a feature, not a bug. If you have several pages of posters agreeing unanimously that you’re wrong, you should probably listen. On the other hand, if they’re telling you you’re right, that’s better validation of your position than a chatbot that will tell you you’re right just because it wants to tell you what it thinks you want to hear.

Well put!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a long time DCUM user and I will continue to be but Chat is amazing in comparison. I get one user with Chat, he does not give me the snark, his replies are instant and he never calls me a troll even when I give him the most hypothetical scenario that is out of this world. How often do you use ChatGPT? I swear I use it 30 times a day.

That equals thirty bottles of water being used up to keep the servers cool. Congrats! I bet ChatGPT does not point out how much water it uses.

[Anonymous]

ChatGPT is horrible. I work in a public facing office and we are deluged by emails written using chatGPT that are pages long and include a bunch of nonsense that doesn’t mean anything. It’s so hard to figure out what each requester wants, but when you send an email to clarify something, they respond with another ChatGPT nonsense reply.

[Anonymous]

What sort of things do you ask ChatGPT about? I’ve only used it for tv series recommendations.