Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by kibwen 1226 days ago
And you don't see how this makes it useless as a paid product? Truth is the product. An AI chatbot that makes no pretensions to the truth might as well be a Markov chain for all the good it does me. Are people really so blinded by the song and dance of this mechanical monkey that they can't see through the ruse?
1 comments

For many of us truth is not the product.

For a lot of people it's a faster way to google something you're familiar with, a more convenient stackoverflow.

When used right its hallucinations don't matter, and the user takes advantage of producing things quickly that would have been tedious to write manually. Like one-off shell scripts.

If your use case necessitates truth then I see why you don't think it's worth paying for.

However this is the only digital product I'm paying a subscription for. It's faster than googling and trudging between useless results, ads, and useless blog content, so it's worth every cent.