[istjohn]

I would have killed to have ChatGPT growing up. It's amazing to have a patient teacher answer any question you can think of. GPT-4 is already far better than the answers you'll get on Quora or Reddit, and it's instant. So it's wrong sometimes. My teachers and parents were wrong plenty of times, too.

[rep_lodsb]

There's a difference between being wrong sometimes, and having no concept of objective reality at all.

I really don't understand how anyone can have such a positive impression. I refuse to register an account just to try it out myself, but that isn't necessary to form an opinion when people are spamming ChatGPT output which they think is impressive all over the Internet.

The best of that output might not always be possible to distinguish from what a human could write, but not the kind of human I'd like to spend time with. It has a certain style that - for me - evokes instant distrust and dislike for the "person" behind it. Something about the bland, corporate tone of helpfulness and political correctness. The complete absence of reflection, nuance, doubt, or curiosity with which it delivers "facts". Its refusal to consider any contradictions feels aggressive to me even - or especially - when delivered in the most non-judgemental kind of language.

It is like the text equivalent of nails on a chalkboard!

[istjohn]

If you haven't bothered to try using it yourself, I don't know why you think anyone would care what you think about it.

[rvba]

I'd argue that most children would kill for an automatic translator like DEEPL (or the much worse Google Translate) - because it would help them with their English / German / other language homework.

English speaks will probably never realize this, that most kids need to say learn English first, then programming.