The Internet being mostly broken at this point is driving me a little insane, and I can’t believe that people who have the power to keep a functioning search engine for themselves wouldn’t go ahead and do it.
I wonder about this every time I see people(?) crowing about how amazing AI is. Like, is there some secret useful AI out there that plebs like me don’t get to use? Because otherwise, huh?
Huh, well aren’t you absolutely dripping with cynicism.
Anyway, GPT5.1 and 5.2 have been hugely useful to me across a variety of topics, mainly functioning as a sort of enhanced search engine. For example, loads of searches would take me a lot of time to fully explore the various nuances of that GPT can typically pull together in a coherent way in only seconds.
Probably the most use of all is in helping with my issues that come from learning French, but it’s also helped me with graphics tasks that would have taken me ages in GIMP, helped ID various unknown animals, helped with stats analysis in sports, and easily 2-3 dozen other things I’ve needed help with in the past year.
So you can hang on to your sourpuss attitude all you like, while I reap the growing number of benefits AI has offered me. And no-- that doesn’t mean I love AI or don’t see its very real dangers down the road to human workforces. That stuff I’m indeed very concerned about in the late-stage capitalist reality we live in.
Okay so this time it’s “I like to fuck around with irrelevant sports statistics and I’m really excited to eventually humiliate myself the first time I try my French with a native speaker”
Listen. Thanks for sharing. I genuinely mean that btw I’m aware I’m being abrasive but you’re putting out your perspective in good faith and I appreciate that. That being said I obviously strongly disagree with any of what you’ve listed being a “benefit”, and I especially caution you against considering SlopGPT to be a “nuanced” source of information for your search queries.
There is a difference between believing you have benefitted and actually benefitting. It’s astonishing to me that you would be concerned about the capitalists yet trust them so adamantly in this moment to manage your very relationship with information. Regardless, I hope you have a happy and safe new year. Cheers
That simply isn’t the case, whether or not you choose to believe it, or tot it up on the massive axe you obviously have to grind in these matters. For whatever reasons, you’re choosing to lump me in to a group of people I never belonged to in the first place, which is a -you- problem, and not mine.
And no, GPT is certainly not my primary learning aid upon French. In fact, it’s one of about half a dozen tools I use, which I’m constantly cross-checking against each other for accuracy, forming an overall highly-useful ‘teacher’ of sorts. So when you lead with that pedantic little bit of fluff, what you’re really telling me is that you have no idea what you’re talking about. You seem to see these things in highly binary terms, once again a “you” problem.
Yeah sure, bonne année and cheers, mate.