re: trust-

Have you tried the free version of ChatGPT? It is positively appalling. It’s like GPT 3.5 but prompted to write three times as much as necessary to seem useful. I wonder how many people have embarrassed themselves, lost their jobs, and been critically misinformed. All easy with state-of-the-art models but seemingly a guarantee with the bottom sub-slop tier.

Is the average person just talking to it about their day or something?

Even the paid version of ChatGPT tends to use a 1000 words when 10 will do.

You can try asking it the same question as Claude and compare the answers. I can guarantee you that the ChatGPT answer won't fit on a single screen on a 32" 4k monitor.

Claude's will.

I use the free version of ChatGPT (without logging in) when I need some one-off question without a huge context. Real world prompt:

  "when hostapd initializes 80211 iface over nl80211, what attributes correspond to selected standard version like ax or be?"

If someone blindly submits chatbot output they deserve to be embarrassed and fired. But I don't think that's going to improve.

The free version of ChatGPT is insanely crippled, so that's not surprising.