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.
What? LOL then why are so many companies suing them for copyright?
Because it’s complicated. It is fed that data, but it can’t access it, refer to it, look it up or anything like that. If you feed it all of reddit, you can’t just ask it what comments did this user make, it simply doesn’t know. It uses all the data it’s fed to build statistical patterns of language and concepts, which is what it then outputs.
This is why it can quote things like Shakespeare, because that information is so widely repeated, it’s fed it so many times, it’s a common pattern it can reliably reproduce. But it isn’t looking in some database and finding that Shakespeare quote to repeat, it doesn’t have that ability or information.
But it does look it up. It even links to it.
If you have it search the internet yes, that’s competely different to its default behaviour though. That’s specifically providing it a document to look at after it has been trained, which it can look at and refer to.