I run a small VPS host and rely on PayPal for payments, mainly because (a) most VPS customers pay that way if you aren’t AWS or GoDaddy and (b) very good fraud protection. My prior venture had quite a bit of chargebacks from Stripe so it went PP-only also.

My dad told me I should “reduce the processing fees” and inaccurately cited that ChatGPT told him PayPal has 5% fees when it really has 3-3.5% fees (plus 49 cents). Yet he insisted 5% was the charge.

Yes, PayPal sucks but ChatGPT sucks even more. When I was a child he said Toontown would ruin my brain, yet LLMs are ruining his even more.

  • asmoranomar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    You guys are taking this way too seriously for a sarcastic remark. Perhaps you should put what I said into ChatGPT to have it explained. It seems to understand what I said well. Thanks for the bias check guys

      • asmoranomar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Touche, lol. You are exactly right.

        But my point stands. It doesn’t have to be sci-fi intelligent, it just has to convince you it is. There have always been people who are not experts trying to explain things they know little about. AI just does that very well, and as you point out, AI (for now) understands nothing.

        I’m not actually saying “LLM’s are not AI”, that’s the sarcastic trap. What I am implying is that some people aren’t as intelligent enough to know the difference. It bounces on the original comment that unless you ask it something you’re very knowledgeable in, AI feels very ‘right’. But people only read the first sentence and have a meltdown.

        It’s just Ironic that ChatGPT does a much better job at explaining what I said. Does that mean it’s more intelligent than me? What about the intelligence of the people who missed the sarcasm? I find it amusing.

        • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network
          41·
          2 days ago

          I think the problem here is that we were vociferously agreeing. I was pointing out where the conflation lies but agreeing with you that LLMs are not “artificial intelligence” in the way that normal people think of the term.

          The real problem with LLMs isn’t that they “passed” the Turing Test. The problem is that humans failed it.

          • asmoranomar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Well, it’s not that I was replying to you specifically. You just happened to be the random winner of “why isn’t there a reply all?”. I am aware we (and not just you and I) share similar a opinion.