[jcranmer]

> From where I’m sitting, ChatGPT in its current nascent state is absolutely changing the world.

From what I've seen, ChatGPT is changing the world... it's absolute goldmine for the spammers, the content mills, the bullshitter industries. We've already seen at least one magazine cease unsolicited submissions because ChatGPT overwhelmed their editors. We've had a contributor on an open-source project get incredibly belligerent when told not to use ChatGPT to respond to bugs (because its advice wasn't helpful).

[brookst]

We’ve also had thousands of people use chatgpt to tune their writing to be more polite, and to fix other issues they struggle with.

Pointing to two very real anecdotes as evidence of systemic uselessness of a technology is not super convincing. It’s the rhetorical equivalent of saying cars will never amount to anything because Ms. Agnes Thompson was run over by one in Cleveland, or that the internet is pointless because someone sent a hoax UUCP message.

[pixl97]

All this means is it is a powerful tool for many uses. Determining if it's a 'good' tool depends on what end of it you're on.