I’m mostly on your side but I did just cancel my gpt4 subscription.
There’s several factors but the main one is that it just uses a whole lot of power and materials eventhough I don’t really need it.
For example it helped me learn about electronics, and it was effective at that. But I feel it’s more efficient to just buy an ebook. It just feels slightly less convenient, but actually is healthier for my focus.
It’s kinda like with bitcoin. It isn’t a net positive given our current situation. It’s a waste of the scarce resources we have. And we need to get to net 0 ASAP and stop mining like there’s no tomorrow.
The other thing it was good at was searching information and providing it in a uniform format, rather than the mess that is the web rn. But installing Firefox and a bunch of extensions solved most of that. And search engines allow for generating an LLM response when I feel it would really help, so that fills the gap.
I’m mostly on your side but I did just cancel my gpt4 subscription.
There’s several factors but the main one is that it just uses a whole lot of power and materials eventhough I don’t really need it.
For example it helped me learn about electronics, and it was effective at that. But I feel it’s more efficient to just buy an ebook. It just feels slightly less convenient, but actually is healthier for my focus.
It’s kinda like with bitcoin. It isn’t a net positive given our current situation. It’s a waste of the scarce resources we have. And we need to get to net 0 ASAP and stop mining like there’s no tomorrow.
The other thing it was good at was searching information and providing it in a uniform format, rather than the mess that is the web rn. But installing Firefox and a bunch of extensions solved most of that. And search engines allow for generating an LLM response when I feel it would really help, so that fills the gap.