I run a small VPS host and rely on PayPal for payments, mainly because (a) most VPS customers pay that way if you aren’t AWS or GoDaddy and (b) very good fraud protection. My prior venture had quite a bit of chargebacks from Stripe so it went PP-only also.

My dad told me I should “reduce the processing fees” and inaccurately cited that ChatGPT told him PayPal has 5% fees when it really has 3-3.5% fees (plus 49 cents). Yet he insisted 5% was the charge.

Yes, PayPal sucks but ChatGPT sucks even more. When I was a child he said Toontown would ruin my brain, yet LLMs are ruining his even more.

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    calling LLMs ai isnt wrong at all, it’s just that sci-fi has made people think ai always means something as smart as a human. heck, the simple logic controlling the monsters in Minecraft is called ai.

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          4 days ago

          You guys are taking this way too seriously for a sarcastic remark. Perhaps you should put what I said into ChatGPT to have it explained. It seems to understand what I said well. Thanks for the bias check guys

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              Touche, lol. You are exactly right.

              But my point stands. It doesn’t have to be sci-fi intelligent, it just has to convince you it is. There have always been people who are not experts trying to explain things they know little about. AI just does that very well, and as you point out, AI (for now) understands nothing.

              I’m not actually saying “LLM’s are not AI”, that’s the sarcastic trap. What I am implying is that some people aren’t as intelligent enough to know the difference. It bounces on the original comment that unless you ask it something you’re very knowledgeable in, AI feels very ‘right’. But people only read the first sentence and have a meltdown.

              It’s just Ironic that ChatGPT does a much better job at explaining what I said. Does that mean it’s more intelligent than me? What about the intelligence of the people who missed the sarcasm? I find it amusing.

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        Get off your high horse and use the same definitions as everyone else. Intentionally choosing to use different ones and then acting like everyone else is stupid is incredibly annoying and proves nothing.

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        In Dune, thinking machines are banned. Not even calculators are allowed. Complex maths is done by trained savants. I’d argue a calculator is AI, since it’s a humanmade device that can extrapolate information from information. That’s the definition of intelligence.