I cancelled my OpenAI subscription this morning.

(I know, I know! I might be cancelled for having signed up in the first place. sorry!)

#resistandUnsubscribe #resistance #broligarchs

@knowuh I cancelled my Perplexity subscription for the same reason and am currently with Mistral. However I might end up going back. Perpelxity is just so much better at performing well-backed research and rarely ever hallucinates when used in the right way. Le Chat on the other hand hallucinates far too often no matter how I instruct it. We still have a long way to go to become on par with the U.S. solutions.

@tobifant interesting to note that Athropic is risking a lot by openly defying the demands of the regime. Anyone who pisses off Pete Hegseth gets my coin.

I hope they survive.

@tobifant

This podcast goes a little deeper and is more
nuanced than I can:

https://www.searchengine.show/mysteries-of-a-chatbot/

Mysteries of a Chatbot

Anthropic hired philosophers to teach its AI to be good. In their tests, the AI blackmailed a human to keep itself alive. Writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus went inside the …

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@knowuh It is interesting how users have vastly different expectations about their chatbots. In connection with my work as a patent attorney who needs to think about different ever-new technology every single day, I use the chatbot to gain an understanding of and research strictly technical subject matter at a pace that is faster than I could myself. The only expectation that I have is factual accuracy. Perplexity (specifically, their way of operating the underlying LLM's which are user selectable, one can select Claude or GPT or others) excels at performing factually correct researches and properly reasoning about the researched facts. I see how users can be concerned about the ethics of a chatbox when they use it in soft arts, but I personally would not use a chatbot for philosophy and arts because I believe chatbots are soulless.