I stopped using it when I asked who I was and then it said I was a prolific author then proceeded to name various books I absolutely did not write.

But chatgpt always gives such great answers on topics I know nothing at all about!

I was using it to blow through an online math course I'd ultimately decided I didn't need but didn't want to drop. One step of a problem I had it solve involved finding the square root of something; it spat out a number that was kind of close, but functionally unusable. I told it it made a mistake three times and it gave a different number each time. When I finally gave it the right answer and asked, "are you running a calculation or just making up a number" it said that if I logged in, it would use real time calculations. Logged in on a different device, asked the same question, it again made up a number, but when I pointed it out, it corrected itself on the first try. Very janky.

I feel like a lot of people in this community underestimate the average person's willingness to trust an AI. Over the past few months, every time I've seen a coworker ask something and search it up, I have never seen them click on a website to view the answer. They'll always take what the AI summary tells them at face value

Which is very scary

I've only really found it useful when you provide the source of information/data to your prompt. E.g. say you want to convert one data format to another like table data into JSON

It works very consistently in those types of use cases. Otherwise it's a dice roll.

That's what people get when they ask me questions too but they still bother me all the time so clearly that's not going to work.

My girlfriend gave me a mini heart attack when she told me that my favorite band broke up. Turns out it was chat gpt making shit up, came up with a random name for the final album too.