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by frozenwind 955 days ago
I didn't want to spend time reading that wall of text, so I wanted a summarized version of it. Asked ChatGPT (4) to do it for me and it told me that Omegle is not going to close. My intuition told me otherwise, so the irony is that I spent more time than needed on this.

https://sharegpt.com/c/yhV8Hjh

Is this a sign of falling GPT quality? I think this was extremely easy to infer.

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PEBCAK, I went to omegle.com and was able to infer exactly what the author meant. It took me approx. 2 minutes to do so. Using ChatGPT to read short things like this is akin to only reading the headline of an article -- you tell me if the latter makes much sense usually.
2 minutes is quite fast, congrats.

I inferred this information by seeing the number of comments on HN (a relevant parameter in estimating the importance of an event imo), the time period 2009-2023 and then immediately after clicking seeing a tombstone. This took me under 2-3 seconds.

The rest of the info I wasn't going time to spend on was the motives etc. It's not the first postmortem I see, I was just curious to why by skipping all of the boilerplate. Omegle is not important to me, but I know it was quite a phenomenon .

My point was that GPT failed blatantly at inferring this same easy task.

Claude nails it without a sweat.