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Switch to what exactly?

If there is nothing else, then you as a customer has screwed up with it before, right? And then the entire strategy/philosophy is maybe to be reviewed?!

Or, in other words: If there is no alternative, this is due to your own faults. Either deal with it, or find ways to undo your mistakes.


Alternatives to private messaging on TikTok?

Uh, Signal. SimpleX. Session. XMPP/OTR. PGP.

Discussing things on TikTok, that the government must not know about, seems a bad idea.


Exactly. And once those ones are established: Why not have all discussions there; not just the ones where you explicitly want to hide something (for whatever dubious or legit reason).

*for the US.

Being the first doesn’t mean you’ll win. They have no product, only a commodity that you can find at other companies or even for free (DeepSeek).

They have a product but it’s a commodity now.

They are in the business of selling compute / datacenter rack spaces. A server where you pay per GBs transferred in/out.

If it’s Gemini or GPT behind, for most use cases users wouldn’t care.


You see these things in the EU too.


They use it for emails, so why not use it for Slack messages as well?


Call me old fashioned, but I'm still sending DMs and emails using my brain.


They use their brain for the main idea of the message, and the LLM for the formatting.


It’s literally in the first sentence of the first definition:

> bar /bar/ n. [JARGON] The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz.


In the etymology section, I presume. And I can't find it either, if it is there.


But yes if it’s another executable.


And the CIA is impartial? ;)


Do please take note of the fact that I did not include "We should trust the CIA" in my comment


No, but you seemed to imply there are people that aren’t partial. Wikipedia is designed to approach impartiality even if its editors are people like you and me who are far from impartial. Are there better alternatives out there?


Wikipedia is incredibly weaponized. I meant what I said


Nobody, you just mention the different points of view that are in the sources.


Which nobody does (really) because it turns into a giant narcissist shit fight then for who can come up with the most absurd ‘truthy’ answer for publicity.

Everyone has to end up filtering at some point or it’s all just noise.



Now imagine that for toilet paper over the top, or over the bottom, or sitting on top of the toilet tank. And everything in between.

We have plenty of bits, at least.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation

Drowning beneath your inability to Google.


At least Wikipedia is supposed to cite its sources, while AIs don’t.


AIs that were trained on data obtained through naughty channels actively avoid citing sources and full passages of reference text, otherwise they'd give the game away. This seems to increase the chance of them entirely hallucinating sources too.


Have you used one recently? The big providers all cite sources if give a research prompt.


Unfortunately, the citations are generally quite low quality and have in my experience a high rate of not actually supporting the text they're attached to.


This is on par with humans, honestly. I’ve dug into cited studies by consulting firms that were 100% false.


In my experience they just add random links at the bottom that are often unrelated to the response they give; there’s absolutely no guarantee that they did read them or that their response is based on them.


Sometimes they hallucinate them, or if they exist, sources include blatant nonsense (like state owned propaganda, such as RT) / don't support the claims made by the output.


what's worse is when they cite clearly LLM generated articles from web


wtf are you conversing with LLMs that you regularly are running into "state owned propaganda" in the references? my "blatant nonsense" detector is going off...


My favorite is when it cites 5 sources, and 1 of them is a real source, and then the other 4 are short form junk that point to the first one as the source. So basically its just picked one article and summarized it for you and not picked any info from any other places. Oh and bonus points when I type the exact same prompt into a search engine, and that 1 source is the top search result anyways.



Do you people even use the models or do you just lie about them?

https://chatgpt.com/share/6984c899-6cc4-8013-a8f6-ec204ee631...


You're using the Research model that isn't available to Free users. As a pupil myself, I can vouch for the fact that nobody is using the Research models here.

Even if a pupil does pay, they will either be too lazy to wait the nearly 10 minutes it takes for the AI to do its research, or they actually care about getting good grades and therefore won't outsource their research to AI.


You can replicate on the free tier. You should try it. I'm just pointing out that the loudest anti-ai voices often either haven't used the models at all or are basing their bad opinions on outdated versions. Any opinion made about ChatGPT with GPT 3.5 is basically irrelevant at this point.


I have bad news for you regarding pupils who "care about getting good grades"...


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