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On a forum I posted a member introduction post (bit about myself), and at the bottom was a "allow AI responses" check; I had multiple paragraphs of info, hit post, and literally a second later a AI response came in also with a couple paragraphs praising what I do.

I'm impressed! It was detailed (it knowingly went through my post and added context), a good bit of fluff, but I can understand how that would look like a human response (kind-of concerning AI's that good as masquerading); a little less fluff/repeating and it'd be more convincing :p
 
These days, an AI subscription is comparable to a magazine subscription in the '90s....
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I don't believe the story you are referring to. Things that are too good to be true are usually false, and I don't think this is the exception. This is just AI hype. Reality is much more nuanced and complicated. AI helps (sometimes), but you still have to work a lot to get a professional result. Just a minute ago, ChatGPT 5.2 Plus marked a sentence of mine as incorrect because it said "there's X" and the reason it gave was that the sentence was missing a verb, so that is the reality of AI.
 

Use of ChatGPT/OpenAI could now be argued to help war and encouraged government spying (although can't say I really needed more reason not to use em :p)
Oh, well. I know now what I'll be accused of for using it. It's gonna be fun.
 
I don't believe the story you are referring to. Things that are too good to be true are usually false, and I don't think this is the exception. This is just AI hype. Reality is much more nuanced and complicated. AI helps (sometimes), but you still have to work a lot to get a professional result. Just a minute ago, ChatGPT 5.2 Plus marked a sentence of mine as incorrect because it said "there's X" and the reason it gave was that the sentence was missing a verb, so that is the reality of AI.
In all honesty, I don't believe the AI hype, either. It's just that, reading that article, I got a sense that the author was treating AIs like I was treating magazine subscriptions back in 1990s. Some magazines had interesting content, like 'Car and Driver', Playboy, cooking-related magazines, 'Consumer Reports', 'Atlantic Monthly', 'National Geographic', you name it. I had subscriptions to a few entertaining titles back in the day. Yeah, those magazines did provide information and entertainment. A subscription to an 'AI model for a specific purpose' is pretty much the same thing - you pay money, get information, and some hype mixed in, and then decide if you wanna blow more money for more of the same. The plot is the same, even if the movie looks kinda different.
 
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