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Ask HN: Should people stop using ChatGPT?

by boyaka on 11/22/23, 6:28 AM with 17 comments

• by scrapheap on 11/22/23, 11:45 AM

  In my view people should certainly stop using these LLMs as a source of truth.

  What worries is that they're often so close to the truth that people start taking what it tells them at face value without stopping and thinking to double check.

• by lfciv on 11/24/23, 4:18 PM

  GPT-4 has fully altered my dev workflow. I don't think I could move away from it unless there was a clear, equivalent, alternative.

  Not only on the OpenAI UI, but also via the Cursor IDE which I actively use with an OpenAI API Key.

  Even if you don't use the OpenAI UI you'll likely end up using the produce via other products. Github Copilot, Arc Browser, Duolingo – likely more in the future – all use GPT under the hood.

• by runjake on 11/24/23, 5:10 PM

  I’m not going to stop using it but there are a number of open source models that are pretty close to GPT 3.5 and 4.

  I run Ollama.ai on my Mac with a variety of models — usually Mistral-7B. It’s fast and gives pretty good answers.

  If you have issues with OpenAI, try those.

• by the__alchemist on 11/22/23, 7:57 PM

  Those witty responses on dating apps aren't going to write themselves.

• by speedgoose on 11/22/23, 10:43 AM

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma

• by dieselgate on 11/23/23, 1:24 AM

  I never started using it but would argue LLMs offer value and people should be able to do what they want under most circumstances.

• by hnthrowaway0315 on 11/22/23, 12:32 PM

  It helps me immensely with scala and python code snippets. I still need to double check but so far they are pretty good.

• by flowzai on 11/23/23, 6:04 AM

  Time consuming fact, that is the main reason. I think can't avoid ChatGPT!

• by gtirloni on 11/23/23, 2:29 AM

  What's imoral about using ChatGPT?