Alright then, if
RGT wants context for this discussion I'll give it to you.
It will be a message longer than
3 lines, so we’ll '
kill off' the majority of those who were reading this discussion excitedly and with bated breath [
?], but eventually you can use it as a temporary fallback for those who have run out of books to read at home.
I’ve already spoken about this in this discussion
here, but even if it’s something rather unpleasant to say in the public square,
90-99.9% of the internet users currently existing worldwide are completely useless and beyond saving.
With his revelation that subsequently became famous and iconic even outside its context,
Sturgeon spoke about the fact that
90% of everything is crap and subsequently this was noted and confirmed also with the
1-9-90 rule, however, that scheme was created at the dawn of the internet when everyone used forums like this to communicate, since then I have the feeling that the situation has worsened significantly with the advent of SNS and real-time chats and this has sucked away the bulk of that
0.1-10% who actually knew how to make a difference.
Because of this free information has become rather difficult to find, because it is hidden in the deep web of private chats or in groups deliberately opposed to organized archiving like
Facebook;
Yahoo Answers is dead and kept alive only by Japan, which is accessible only via VPN;
Reddit lacks a page divider to truly read all preserved comments or discussions and the old sites are either all dead or are about to die shortly.
This is because those who created the internet at the dawn did not truly import property rights, but only eternal renting and the
Wayback Machine or
Archive Today does not seem explorable by an external search engine.
For this reason, the current situation has become rather desolate to utilize.
In '
The Great Encyclopedia of Memes' by our member
@Clippy here on the forum, there was an aphorism invented some time ago that said '
In the past we fled our real lives to be on the internet, but today we flee the internet to return to real life'.
And it is in this current void that
LLMs have found their reason for existing for me, because they act as a
narrator to ask for information.
In my personal experience, which could however change tomorrow morning,
DeepSeek is a Chinese Communist Party product and therefore totally useless to waste time on;
Copilot and
GPT are two pieces of shit, because they are sanitized with a certain school of thought and refuse to obey orders even if you explain to them that you are not violating any rule of the country you are in, also, the
tokens available are very few for the current version and the free one seems truly senile.
Meanwhile with
Gemini I found a good compromise, because it has helped me very often when I found myself in dead ends or blocked by analysis paralysis.
However, it is necessary to be
very suspicious, because it too is a victim of
hallucinations or
typos. In fact in such cases I tell it '
Add humility to your safety filters and admit for once that you absolutely do not know what you are talking about and let's close this topic here please'.
