Looking for technical stuff about DHCP. Google was returning lots of junk and so, wary that ChatGPT is a bullshit fountain, I asked it anyway.
It gave me several concise and to the point answers addressing exactly what I asked.
They were all completely wrong. It just confidently spouted bullshit the same way a narcissist bluffing about a subject they know almost nothing about will.
However, the bullshit it gave me allowed me to frame some pertinent google searches to actually get the information I wanted.
So I guess thatβs a usage model for it: to guide your google searches.
The issue is that Google will slowly fill up with the output of the bullshit fountains, at which point we wonβt be able to check their answers anymore, because theyβll effectively be marking their own homework.
Utter joy abounds (not really).
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(Emphasis mine, which most of you wonβt see because Mastodon has βNot Invented Hereβ syndrome on a huge scale)
β¦on the other hand, was written by a human, and βthe modular nature of the C languageβ is an interesting way to say, βjust write stuff onto the stack and then execute a jump instruction because that works with any old shitβ.
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•I... need to escape from this place.
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Some of the legacy code we worked with was BBC Basic from the early 80s that had been hand transcribed into C.
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Simon Lucy
•Well that's Cambridge for you.
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Karen Simpson
•Use multiple search engines, like searx.
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•TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview
www.redbooks.ibm.comCluster_junkie
•Or perhaps a good time to bring back trust networks like WebRings and curated URL directories?
newsorpigal
•Simon Lucy
•Then it should do a StackOverflow moderator persona "This is not a valid question or prompt for this service".
newsorpigal
•And how would it know? These are language models, they generate plausable text based on what it has seen before. They have no sense of truth or accuracy.
Simon Lucy
•Because there is governance and one of its use cases is a better search, for instance try a prompt for scientific papers on a reasonably specific question with references.
In that use case it appears to be useful and the papers seem genuine (it's best not to try and get it to make value judgements or make the purpose too opinionated).
Claudius Link
•What's left then is a very fancy and expensive Lore ipsum generator
rainynight65
•On a general question, the answer was accurate except for one detail. On a more specific question, all the information it gave me *sounded* plausible but was completely incorrect.
What was 'interesting' was that upon being told the information was incorrect, it apologised for the error, and came back with a different, yet still incorrect answer.
Knud Jahnke
•Necessary consequence: learning to do better research and to better evaluate sources. Because this isn't new, regurgitating "I found this on Google" was never good research, but needs to be replaced by searching for the actual sources.
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•The truth is: yes, I am afeared
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•Marko Mitranic
•1. the main problem of search today, is that a monitor having βgamingβ in its name doesnβt mean its a good choice, but google pretends it does.
2. The problem of aiSearch, is exactly the same, but with ai.
Morten Bech
•So we invented this fancy World Wide Web-thingie with the intention of making it easy to share information.
Instead, apparently, weβre ending up spending an awful lot of energy on a pile of garbage no one can use for anything π€
Very convenient, indeed π€¦ββοΈ
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Stephen Cerruti
•Maybe we are seeing things hitting their 'eternal September' much more quickly?
After all, "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea. Massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
ββGene Spafford, 1992
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