I tried out ChatGPT the first week or so but it is so apparently useless that I have been more and more depressed since then by watching the world get fooled by this illusion. It feels like a really bad magic trick where the whole audience seems to be impressed, while only I saw all the props and fakery.
Having discussions about this with friends and relatives becomes tiresome since they are so happy fantasizing about a future where they only need minimal amount of effort, while I became quite good at spotting GPT output and starting to see the same boring writing style in more and more places.
That same boring writing style is what you get out of GPT if you use its default persona (i.e. what you get from the ChatGPT service). It can be very different when primed accordingly, even via the chat itself (just by telling it to adopt a different persona); it's just that most people who use it as assistant for text composition don't bother to.
I can relate to being annoyed at the hype but to call chatGPT useless is about as hyperbolic as the AI maximalists who say it will solve all our problems. There are many people right now using it and getting value out of it.
I wouldn't mind if facebook managed to present some interesting suggestions to me with this "AI", because their current algorithms just doesn't work out.
I have been trying to teach their algorithm that I am not interested in Ancient Aliens crap groups, but they keep being suggested to me.
I have probably blocked hundreds of these nonsense groups by now from their suggestions.
My issue seems to be that I am interested in actual archeology, and they seem to not make a distinction.
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An interesting piece of information from the article is this:
"Hindenburg is an investment firm that researches publicly-traded companies and shorts their stocks if they find sufficient evidence of investor fraud before releasing its report. Since Hindenburg directly profits from the company's decline in stock, it's not an impartial source of information "
> The (summary) message seems to be: Don't use Opera because "The company is chasing trends and extracting the most money possible from its declining users".
Your summary is dumb. Here's why, and I quote from the article you claim to summarize:
> Hindenburg alleged that when the Opera browser continued losing users (due to competition from Google and Apple), the company shifted gears to building mobile apps that provided predatory short-term loans. The interest rates on those loans ranged from 365-876% per year, and loan terms from 7-29 days. Opera also falsely advertised longer loan terms and lower interest rates in the app descriptions, because the Google Play Store had rules against predatory loan services.
> The loan apps specifically targeted customers in Kenya, India, and Nigeria.
Nobody read the links anymore, just chatting??
Also, everybody check out Firefox, not corporate boring Chrome!
I didn't provide a summary of the article, just quoted from it's Conclusion (== Summary) -section verbatim:
"The company is chasing trends and extracting the most money possible from its declining users"
For me that is not a good enough reason to stop using Opera.
Also the Hindenburg report is from 2020. Not very trendy. If Opera really is more "evil" company than say Google, Apple and Microsoft I would think there would by now be more information about the "alleged" misbehaviors.
Maybe they mended their ways, because of that report?
I'm using Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Edge. Chrome and Edge seem to give me more adds than Opera. I think it's good there are more browser-choices regardless of what Hindenburg-report said in 2020.
Certainly it is good to bring up reports of alleged unethical behavior by corporations. But Opera is a very small company compared to Google, Apple and Microsoft. Trying to bash them now because of a report that came out in 2020 just seems a bit odd.
Here's another quote from the article which seems over the top to me:
"You should not, under any circumstances, use Opera Browser or any of its derivatives."
Why not even derivatives? Under any circumstances?
I tried out ChatGPT the first week or so but it is so apparently useless that I have been more and more depressed since then by watching the world get fooled by this illusion. It feels like a really bad magic trick where the whole audience seems to be impressed, while only I saw all the props and fakery.
Having discussions about this with friends and relatives becomes tiresome since they are so happy fantasizing about a future where they only need minimal amount of effort, while I became quite good at spotting GPT output and starting to see the same boring writing style in more and more places.