The Kavernacle has videos on this. He talks about how it’s eroding emotional connection in society and having people offload their thikcing onto chatgpt. I think this is a problem But my main issue i’m most passionate about is the issue of misinformation. In the process of writing thsi post i did an experiment and asked it some questiosn about autism. I asked them waht autsitic burnout is. They gave an explanation that’s incorrect, and furthers the incorrect assumption alot of pepole make that i’ts something specific to autistic people. But it’s a wider phenomon of physiological neurocongitive burnout. I confronted them on this they refined their position then I asked them why they said it. It constnatly contradicts itself and will just be like yeah you are correct i am wrong, while continuing to not repeat the same incorrect claim. https://i.imgur.com/KINH7lV.png https://i.imgur.com/EHtDwNj.png According to chatgpt their own sentence contradicts itself. They also proceeded to tell invent a new usage of a very obscure medical term that is not widely used then try to gaslight me into believing it’s a commonly jused term among autsitic people whne it isn’t https://i.imgur.com/LStZdNg.png

And what frustrates me even more is a couple months ago i had someone swear to me up and down that, the hallucinations in chatgpt were fixed and they ain’t that bad anymore. Granted, they were far worse in the past. It litaerlly tol dme autims level system was something that no longer exists despite it being currently widely used.

But here’s the problem. I am an expert on this topic. Most people aren’t asking chatgpt questions about things they are an expert in, and they also are using it as a therapist.

All in all i wasn’t expecting it to have no hallucinations but i was atelast expecting it to not still be a massive issue in just basic information retrival on topics that aren’t even super obscure and information si widely available about.

Ultimately here’s the issue. The vast majority of pro-genai people don’t know what genai actually is and why it is bad to use it in the way they are as a result. GenAI is a very advanced from of predictive text function. It just predicts what it thinks the words following that queery is based on the tereabytes maybe evne petabytes of infromation it’s scrapped from the internet. Which means it’s not really useful for anything beyond very basic things like asking it to generate simple ideas or summarize an article or video and very basic coding. I only dabble very lighlty in programming but frmo hwat i’ve heard actaul experienced programmers say it trying to use chatgpt for major coding just means having to rewrite most of the code.