ChatGPT business model: rephrasing stackoverflow answers to make the asker feel like a valuable human being.

It’s true. And neither of them back it up with reasons.

The good thing about stack overflow, (when your question isn't marked as a duplicate of something completely unrelated), is that you accidentally learn random other things while browsing answers.

One of the guys I worked with said be prefers the chatbot because stack overflow always made him feel stupid when he'd ask for help. The emotional dimension is big for some people.

Stack Overflow was the antithesis of "Just say something wrong on the internet so that someone will correct you with the real answer" because none of the negative threads actually answered the question lol.

ChatGPT: "I'm absolutely wrong"

I asked ChatGPT if it would ever maliciously give me a wrong answer and it said no, so I believe it.

If you guessed this sound (rubber duck squeak) is not like the others then you're absolutely right!

Source: Sesame Street record from when I was a kid.

Ime Google AI is much worse about making up wrong answers to sound right.

If I'd ask ChatGPT and Google AI to help me craft a set of Ansible tasks to do something rather simple but also something I don't do very often, like converting PEM certs + key to PKCS12....they'd both write a playbook that's close, but ChatGPT would be much closer.

But they both say crazy shit sometimes. The other day ChatGPT told me Fedora 40 is the latest release and 43 is still in testing.

Never understood why people on SO are such dicks all the time

glm-4.7: I fixed it

The new model 5.2 seems to have toned down a little in term of constantly glazing you up.

Chatgpt just cribs from stack overflow, which in turn just cribs their answers from documentation. Once you figure that out, they both become surprisingly useless.

I kinda miss stackoverflow

While SO is toxic, it's mostly about the failure of the supplicant to do the fucking research (RTFM or equivalent these days goddammit, and is usually backed by ppl with actual knowledge, Chat GPT / LLMs., not so much.