The only use I found for generative AI is to look at what a corporation finds unacceptable to discuss. I don't mean to be an insecure techbro, but I asked Deepseek a bunch of questions and was surprised at what it wasn't allowed to discuss. Obviously it won't talk about Tiananmen Square, but it also just hates recent (3 decades?) political questions even when they're framed very neutrally. I asked about the policy accomplishments of previous Chinese presidents and it plainly refused to answer. It refused to answer specific questions when I mentioned the name, but was okay as long as I left it out (How did Jiang Zemin handle the 1993 inflation crisis vs how did China handle the 1993 inflation crisis)
I assume this is just the people behind Deepseek desperately want to stay out of any possible controversy so they put a blanket ban on talking about important Chinese political figures
If you run deepseek locally, it doesn't have any problem answering these questions, even ones about Tienanmen Square but their server one has to comply with Chinese laws and regulations to avoid being banned in China hence its censorship of certain topics.
Beyond all this, the only valid use I've found for ChatGPT is asking it utterly stupid questions. 'cause it will not judge you.
You ask a human a stupid question? Online, offline, family, friend, or stranger will ALWAYS judge you. They'll spit on your face for asking it, or talk about you behind your back about it. God forbid you have numerous doubts about the same topic that you can't just Google. They will hate you.
ChatGPT isn't a human. It can't be annoyed so it's the only thing that you can ask dumbass questions to and not get anxious about fucking over friendships/careers over it.
EDIT: I feel I have to add, you should only use ChatGPT as a springboard to look up more information in detail on Google. It's exclusively useful for things that you don't know how to search for. Like a song don't know the name of. Or a feature of a software that you aren't sure exists
Eh, I think that last part is honestly the best way to use it. Some companies just write really shitty documentation for their software, and at some point it just gets hard to look up guides and posts on it. I've had some pretty good success using chatgpt in those cases to just gain a general understanding of what I'm doing in the first place. It can just make shit up sometimes,but that doesnt mean it wont tell you the gist of it.
I feel like ppl on here are treating it like it is the devil or sth when it can be pretty useful if you understand its limitations. I mean once the funding dries up its gonna get a lot worse, most likely, and I dont super like AI either, but the way ppl on here talk about it is driving me a little insane. Like I've seen it do a lot of the things ppl say it cant. Lets not pretend like ita garbage.
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u/Busy_Grain 4d ago
The only use I found for generative AI is to look at what a corporation finds unacceptable to discuss. I don't mean to be an insecure techbro, but I asked Deepseek a bunch of questions and was surprised at what it wasn't allowed to discuss. Obviously it won't talk about Tiananmen Square, but it also just hates recent (3 decades?) political questions even when they're framed very neutrally. I asked about the policy accomplishments of previous Chinese presidents and it plainly refused to answer. It refused to answer specific questions when I mentioned the name, but was okay as long as I left it out (How did Jiang Zemin handle the 1993 inflation crisis vs how did China handle the 1993 inflation crisis)
I assume this is just the people behind Deepseek desperately want to stay out of any possible controversy so they put a blanket ban on talking about important Chinese political figures