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ChatGPT has reached over 400 million weekly active users, doubling its count since August 2024. "We feel very fortunate to serve 5 percent of the world every week," OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said on X. Engadget reports: The latest milestone for the AI assistant comes after a huge uproar over new rival platform DeepSeek earlier in the year, which raised questions about whether the current crop of leading AI tools was about to be dethroned. OpenAI is on the verge of a move to simplify its ChatGPT offerings so that users won't have to select which reasoning model will respond to an input, and it will make its GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 models available soon in the chat and API clients. With GPT-5 being made available to OpenAI's free users, ChatGPT seems primed to continue expanding its audience base in the coming months.
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The wife is a teacher - they all use ChatGPT to write reports which they know that nobody will ever read. So it is good for busy work and bedtime stories.
This is one of those things where I keep wondering, how did we get to the point where some of us literally spend our entire day generating bullshit that no one needs, no one wants, no one will ever look at, and will be thrown away in a few years after it's sat in a record database somewhere? Human lives are filled with busywork just so we don't have free time to ourselves. We need a modern philosopher to tackle this conundrum.
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If I cannot trust the output then I'd rather do all of the work myself. While AI may be faster than me at some tasks, it is not more intelligent or better than meatspace me. I wouldn't hire a 10 year old to do my work either.
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I don't trust the output of the vast majority of my peers either. We have fixed that problem ages ago with reviews and tests.
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I try to use it but the subjects I search for (mostly obscure history stuff like about the history of Khorasan or the Genpei War or stuff like that) seem to generate a lot more hallucination that other subjects so it really is a waste of time to sort through the lies.
What do you use it for?
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Approximately 2,9 billion people use Facebook monthly.
Yeah, usage numbers equal quality.
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ChatGPT is a poor finder of facts, but it is the best damned writing assistant that I've encountered in my entire professional career, plus the real-time voice translation is extremely impressive. It has come in extremely handy on several occasions for me and my wife. It's the best $20 a month I've spent in a long time, and it is only getting better.
The dismissal of ChatGPT is a classic example of the Slashdot atti
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Search engine (Score:2)
"Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens." --Martin Heidegger. (He deserves extra credit for using the completely obscure word, aletheia, a word which should be used more often.)
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ChatGPT is completely useless. IAFD.com is still your friend for that.
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A lot of people I know have used ChatGPT to completely replace search engines.
I use ChatGPT before I use Google search now. Yes, there are hallucination concerns about ChatGPT, but there are also significant accuracy and bias concerns about Google search and Internet resources in general. The way to use ChatGPT is to skeptically view all results, which is how I consider everything in life, whether on the Internet or in person. Those that would blindly trust ChatGPT tend to be those that also blindly trust other sources of information. The fundamental problem is not ChatGPT but the re
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For information search, I find that ChatGPT tends to hallucinate at the same point at which google would just return garbage irrelevant results - because sometimes what you want just doesn't exist.
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Of course none of those are bots. Are you kidding? Totally legit. We have SO MUCH engagement... (Give us more money!)
Not such a positive situation (Score:2)
Studies estimate that an AI model like ChatGPT-4 consumes around 2.9 Wh (watt-hours) per query for inference (i.e., generating responses).
Assuming 1 user uses the service 10 times per week:-
400 million users × 10 queries per user = 4 billion queries per week
4 billion queries × 2.9 Wh per query = 11.6 billion Wh
11.6 billion Wh = 11.6 GWh (gigawatt-hours) per week
11.6 GWh × 52 weeks = 603.2 GWh per year
This is roughly equivalent to the annual energy consumption of 55,000 U.S. homes
(based on an
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Studies estimate that an AI model like ChatGPT-4 consumes around 2.9 Wh (watt-hours) per query for inference (i.e., generating responses).
Assuming 1 user uses the service 10 times per week:- 400 million users × 10 queries per user = 4 billion queries per week 4 billion queries × 2.9 Wh per query = 11.6 billion Wh 11.6 billion Wh = 11.6 GWh (gigawatt-hours) per week
11.6 GWh × 52 weeks = 603.2 GWh per year This is roughly equivalent to the annual energy consumption of 55,000 U.S. homes (based on an average of 10.9 MWh per home per year).
If the electricity comes from fossil fuels (~400 g CO per kWh), then:
603.2 GWh × 400 g/kWh = 241,280 metric tons of CO per year This is equivalent to the emissions from 52,000 gasoline-powered cars annually.
This is just for chatgpt.
Sshhhhhh. We're not supposed to mention that. Only praise for AI is allowed. Any criticism, no matter how legitimate, is unbridled neckbeard FUD.
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ChatGPT: create a bond villain (Score:1)
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