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by tus666 804 days ago
The more I use ChatGPT, the useless I realize it is.

It looks impressive at first, until you realize it is like a trick pony. Don't get it to haul your luggage.

It gives apparently good summaries of sometimes complex topics. But then you ask it to explain things in more detail...welcome to a special hell of circular reasoning, inherent contradictions, and surprising about-faces that occur even when you ask a complementary question (complementary as in congruent not admiring).

ChatGPT: <long verbose answer...>

Me: Oh so your saying X implies Y but not Z? (which previous answer did)

ChatGPT: Apologies for causing confusion, I misspoke.... (go on to give a worse response now)

Me: But your first response was OK, I just wanted to clarify XYZ...

ChatGPT: <now gives a response with directly conflicting statements>

How many times have you seen this?