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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The common clay of the new west:

transcriptChatGPT has become worthless

[Business & Professional]

I’m a paid member and asked it to help me research a topic and write a guide and it said it needed days to complete it. That’s a first. Usually it could do this task on the spot.

It missed the first deadline and missed 5 more. 3 weeks went by and it couldn’t get the task done. Went to Claude and it did it in 10 minutes. No idea what is going on with ChatGpt but I cancelled the pay plan.

Anyone else having this kind of issue?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am extremely, extremely sickos.png for having all these weird little fucks find out that all this nonsense is heavily subsidised by VCs

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago

Same here. The world's been forced to deal with these promptfucks ruining everything they touch for literal years at this point, some degree of schadenfreude at their expense was sorely fucking needed.

[–] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

replacing ChatGPT with a script that replies "Great, I'll finish that for you by ${Date.Now() + 86400}"