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Kinda strange that people are so crazy about ChatGPT's abilities for bad (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are lots of articles about bad use cases of ChatGPT that Google already provided for decades.

Want to get bad medical advice for the weird pain in your belly? Google can tell you it's cancer, no problem.

Do you want to know how to make drugs without a lab? Google even gives you links to stores where you can buy the materials for it.

Want some racism/misogyny/other evil content? Google is your ever helpful friend and garbage dump.

What's the difference apart from ChatGPT's inability to link to existing sources?

Edit: Just to clear things up. This post is specifically not about the new use cases that come from AI. Sure, Google cannot make semi-non-functional mini programs automatically, and Google will not write a fake paper in whole for me. I am specifically talking about the "This will change the world" articles, that mirror stuff that Google can do exactly like ChatGPT can.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno.

Every history book I've ever read seems to indicate that our species tends toward using new technology for the worst purposes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, but many purposes that people are afraid that ChatGPT could be used for are already 1:1 possible with Google.

Reminds me of the 3D printed gun discussion. Sure, you can use a 3D printer to print a super crappy gun that can't build up enough pressure for the projectile to gain some actual lethal speed without exploding.

Or you could do what people have been doing for centuries and just get a pipe and some other hardware from the hardware store and build a gun manually. That's literally how guns where made for centuries. (Except that you have to replace the big box hardware store with the correct equivalent of the time.)