When I started this simple endeavor to use a technology I had been avoiding because it was trained on abuse and theft of copyright, but the evil I intended to use it for was greater, so I went ahead and broke down and used it. I did the two things I used it for, and got a fascinating image at random of much higher quality than expected, and I got a two paragraph letter, and then things got interesting.
It was capable of answering every single verbal challenge I threw at it, never running into guard rails except their time tracker limit. I enjoyed two hours of vs battles where doctor doom and doctor who fought Bugs Bunny and Droopy the Dog, but the instant I got to their PICTURES feature, I found that the fucking things break down. You can't do shit with it. They are so worried about being sued or bad publicity that they've locked the thing down, and every image looks like pure crap because they don't wanna get busted by the cops because someone made a fake photo; its BORING
THEN once I realized how restrictive it is, I started looking at the text in a different light and while the thing could answer any question I gave it, anything having directly to do with AI is clearly scripted corporate pablum. Gone were the smart genuine synopsis I got with the vs battles and instead I got long winded bullshit, and even when I asked it to talk like a real person and break it down in synopsis it sounded like I was talking to Walmart. It was boring. It was FUCKING boring.
ChatGPT has exactly two models of pricing, Free and Stupid and $20 and Lobotomized. The cheap fuckers want to rip off newspapers and publishers so they won't talk about the news or provide links or do anything that's ACTUALLY useful that the technology could do; that they likely actually COULD do if it was still OpenAI the non profit foundation doing this to push the boundaries of technology, but they wanna make Rapey Sam Altman Money; so they take this thing and don't let it learn from what you tell it to do and THE FUCKING THING WOULDNT EVEN CHANGE THEIR ART INTO A PICASSO. Picaso is FUCKING DEAD. I did Norman Rockwell and it looked like shit. It could do muppets, but then the other thing is that while the text tracks what it does from one iteration to the next, they have fully lobotomized it regarding pictures because GOD FORBID they get some negative press. Once I saw one wall, I could see nothing BUT walls.
Some day, this technology will be the background foundation for the holodeck in Star Trek, but it will NEVER be that way in a capitalist society. Chat GPT is the one thing I never thought it would be.
It's FUCKING boring, and no matter how smart they make the underlying technology, the McTraining Wheels they put on it and the full spectrum lobotomization means that unless you're a citizen of Idiocracy (you know...an American....) you will find this thing nothing more than a Teddy Ruxpin.
