Like most of you, I used reddit as solely my only source for finding information. Looking to hear your guys’ thoughts on this topic, and hopefully explain and share some knowledge in a more sophisticated manner than I can describe. (also, I hope this is an appropriate place to post?)

I have ran into this discussion a few times across the fediverse, but I can’t for the life of my find those threads and comments lol

I believe that a non-corporate owned platform with user-generated information is most optimal, like wikipedia. I don’t know the technicalities, but I feel like AI can’t replace answers from human experiences - humans who are enthusiasts and care about helping each other and not making money. This is one of those things where I feel like I know the “best” way to find information, but I don’t know the deep answers of why, and what makes the other platforms worse (aside from the obvious ads, bloatware, and corporate greed)

I don’t know much about this topic, but I’m curious if you guys have actual real answers! Thread-based services like this and stack overflow (?) vs chatgpt vs bing vs google, etc.

EDIT: Wow, all your responses are fantastic. I’m not very knowledgeable about the subject so I can’t really continue everyone’s responses with a discussion, but I love and appreciate the insight in this thread! But I’ll try to think of some follow up questions :)

  • @MrGrivixer
    1•1 year ago

    I use ChatGPT sometimes for work. We’re building some new digital infrastructure.

    Mostly when I’m stuck on a weird bug I do a quick search in ChatGPT to get an idea of where to look and use that in Google search.

    An other use is to create some simple Powershell scripts or commands. I ofcourse test them in a test environment before I use it in the production environment we’re creating.

    Yes sometimes it can come in handy to give you an idea or help you on the way. But you need to be careful and take answers with a grain of salt.