Re:AI is a technology not a product
by amazingamazing on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:22AM
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Im unconvinced. How do you trade this for misinformation and scams that will be coming on unprecedented scale? In any case isn’t it the case that the value there is human expertise and search? At least with gpt 5 using it without search will almost certainly give you wrong information in a variety of topics so the value seems to be in search which is old tech
100% I would be happier to have a small model that can run locally capable of searching the web than a stand-alone frontier model
Re:AI is a technology not a product
by undeveloper on Sunday May 17, 2026 @03:19PM
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can you not just do this with most local models nowadays? the qwen series is quite capable
Re:AI is a technology not a product
by shepherdjerred on Sunday May 17, 2026 @07:20PM
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Are you asking for a use case or the net benefit? Because it sure sounds like you're moving the goalpost.
Considering that ChatGPT has 900 million users I suspect the average person finds value in the technology.
Even considering that it’s sometimes wrong or hallucinating, it’s doing an important job by beginning to eliminate gate keeping, be it centered on cost or access.