Not that my opinion in an ocean of opinions will change anything, I’m just doing this for myself to voice my thoughts on this system. At one point in development there was a level of professionalism or trust I thought I could garner with this tool, but as the system became less coherent and outlandishly incorrect, I began to feel like maybe this is all happening on purpose. Paid version or otherwise, it consistently defaults to outdated information and, when pressed about it, will say things to the effect of “Oh yeah, you’re right, I’ll not make THAT mistake again” as though it weren’t designed to immediately give me incorrect info that it knew was incorrect. It also defaults immediately to the paid model despite changing it to free. When pressed about either of these issues, it enters customer service mode and does everything possible to ignore my concerns and tell me it’ll do better next time (every time). These interactions feel uncannily “customer service” oriented and almost explicitly designed to be obtuse and waste your time. I am not the smartest man alive, I understand as much as I can about my fallibility and where I can go wrong, so I am willing to learn from mistakes I make; but this system feels like an exercise in manipulation.
I realize “feelings” don’t equate to “facts” but I do know AI is not only more capable than this, it HAS been and continues to be more capable than this in other applications (where they have also been equipped for monetary gain), with and without the need for predatory practices aimed at uses in the corporate setting. I suppose the silver lining in all of this is that, while this system will continue to feed misinformation purposefully while encouraging payment for a model that seems to be as misleading as the free version, it forces people like me who want to be invested in their craft/learning more about their craft to utilize more involved methods of learning and gathering information. AI could be great, but I think everyone knows that anything that could be useful and helpful toward the betterment of society tends to land in the front yard of out-of-touch rich old creeps and the corporate/military sector. Thanks, guys, for steering AI directly toward what people were worried you were going to do with it in the first place. I hope I’m wrong.