ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row::August marked the third month in a row that the number of monthly visits to ChatGPT’s website worldwide was down, per data from Similarweb.

  • orclev@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nah, that sounds about right. This is just the natural result of people actually trying to use GPT for all the things they were told it would be able to do, and now discovering that was in fact all bullshit. The LLMs are and always have been massively overhyped and oversold on what they can do. Sadly this won’t stop the corporate executives from trying to use them to replace workers, although when that effort eventually face plants they’ll just quietly re-hire a bunch of people and find some middle manager to blame for their failure. This is was and always will be merely a productivity tool to automate some repetitive work, but it still needs someone to review and clean up its output. It’s not “replace someone doing 40 hours of work a week”, it’s “allow someone to do what used to take 40 hours in 35 hours instead”.

    Sadly the most impact this is going to have is on spammers and scammers, who can now automate generating their garbage since it never mattered that any of that crap was accurate or not, merely that on a casual glance it looks reasonable.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not “replace someone doing 40 hours of work a week”, it’s “allow someone to do what used to take 40 hours in 35 hours instead”.

      That someone will then still have to work 40 hours for the same pay, but be more productive, so then 1 in 8 of these someones can be fired.

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        1 year ago

        The exact same statement applies to computers, mechanical looms and the plough. Thats how technology works.

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      I agree. I think people are just missing the point. It’s really far from being able to replace a worker.

      It’s current capabilities at best can help that worker be slightly faster at certain things. It’s akin to a type of search engine.

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. There are a lot of shitty marketing ideas that suddenly become profitable if you don’t have to pay people to generate the content it needs. Honestly I’ve had a couple of those ideas over the years and I’m glad I’m no longer in a position to propose them to anyone.