OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired

Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by shafyy on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:48AM (#38361541)

For what it's worth, I didn't downvote you.

Depends on what you define as positive impact. Helping programmers write boiler plate code faster? Summarize a document for lazy fuckers who can't get themselves to read two page? Ok, not sure if this is what I would consider "positive impact".

For a list of negative impacts, see the sister comments. I'd also like to add that the energy usage of LLMs like ChatGPT is immensely high, and this in a time where we need to cut carbon emissions. And mostly used for shits and gigles by some boomers.

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by sebzim4500 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:30AM (#38361830)

Your examples seem so obviously to me to be a "positive impact" that I can't really understand your comment.

Of course saving time for 100 million people is positive.

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by mejutoco on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @06:31AM (#38362266)

Not arguing either way, but it is conceivable that reading comprehension (which is not stellar in general) can get even worse. Saving time for the same quality would be a positive. Saving time for a different quality might depend on the use-case. For a rough summary of a novel it might be ok, for a legal/medical use, might literally kill you.

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by shafyy on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @05:57AM (#38377626)

"Positive impact" for me would be things like improve social injustice, reduce poverty, reduce CO2 emissions, etc. Not saying that it's a negative impact to make programmers more productive, but it's not like ChatGPT is saving the world.

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