They are going to put ads into ChatGPT, apparently.

[ahchay@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@gilesgoat @Mafalda @llamasoft_ox it's a confirmation bias generator - a "friend" who only tells you how good and clever you are

I had someone telling me in all seriousness that he had a theory that there could be "a number bigger than infinity" and chatgpt told him he was right. Couldn't be shaken from it

[gilesgoat@toot.wales]

@ahchay @Mafalda @llamasoft_ox ... except that in math, and there are many proofs of that, "infinity is NOT a number" ..

[ahchay@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@gilesgoat @Mafalda @llamasoft_ox exactly that, it's a set theory. And I know that there are all sorts of weird edge cases in infinity theory, but he was talking about the classic start counting at 1 and keep going up concept

But he'd been told so many times by chatgpt that he was correct that he couldn't be moved

[u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing]

@llamasoft_ox it’s got electrolytes

[tattooed_mummy@beige.party]

@ahchay @gilesgoat @Mafalda @llamasoft_ox i hate it but very occasionally I use deepseek. When I'm just struggling with regular search. Engines, I use it as a search engine.

It's very interesting because it shows you its background 'thinking' where it says things like, 'i must validate the users point of view'

And i always think, "why must you? I might be an idiot "

If search engines still worked, and there was actual information at the end of them instead of ai articles, I probably wouldn't need to use ai at all

[jaywink@jasonrobinson.me]

@{llamasoft_ox@toot.wales} it doesn't have ads already? Never used it 😅

Disappointed in you, capitalism!

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@llamasoft_ox
Broke: Gen AI images with 6 fingers

Woke: Gen AI with 6 obvious ads.

I could get behind that.
@oblomov

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@Tattooed_Mummy @ahchay @gilesgoat @Mafalda @llamasoft_ox Google has verbatim search but it requires 3 clicks. There are browser addons that hide AI generated bullshit and AI mode (pretty sure the bullshit is still generated, therefore heating up the planet and making children around data centres go without drinking water).

[steppl@mastodon.social]

@llamasoft_ox

"The press of this button is sponsored by odorono"

[tattooed_mummy@beige.party]

@rhelune @ahchay @gilesgoat @Mafalda @llamasoft_ox yes, but part of the problem is even when you get to the article, it's ai bullshit. A struggle to find anything real on the internet these days

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@Tattooed_Mummy @ahchay @gilesgoat @Mafalda @llamasoft_ox I mostly use ecosia. I have started adding "-site:ai". Filters out a ton of slop.

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@llamasoft_ox Oh please oh please oh please...

I won't ask for anything else for my birthday or Christmas, but please can I have this?

[ahchay@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Tattooed_Mummy @gilesgoat @Mafalda @llamasoft_ox if more people applied the "i might be an idiot" filter the world would be a much better place

[zelphirkaltstahl@mastodon.social]

@gilesgoat Who'da thunk that it is not profitable in itself!

[brouhaha@mastodon.social]

@llamasoft_ox
Woild I even be able to tell the difference?