I use ChatGPT every single day, and I find it both extremely useful and entertaining.

I mainly use it to help edit longer messages, bounce ideas around, and share random thoughts I know my friends wouldn’t be interested in. Honestly, it also has pretty much replaced Google for me.

I basically think of it as a friend who’s really knowledgeable across a wide range of topics, excellent at writing, and far more civil than most people I run into online - but who’s also a bit delusional at times and occasionally talks out of their ass, which is why I can’t ever fully trust it. That said, it’s still a great first stop when I’m trying to solve a problem.

In the book “The World Without Us” the author states that old steel bridges would be among the last human made structures left thousands of years after humas have dissapeared for the reason that they didn’t have strenght calculations back then which they solved by simply overbuilding everything.

I’m not questioning whether such actors exist - I’m questioning why anyone would waste their time on a platform as tiny as Lemmy. Even if they were successful, the number of people they could sway here is minuscule. That time and effort would be far better spent on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube, where the reach is exponentially greater.

I also question people’s ability to detect these actors in the first place. The common assumption seems to be that they’re pushing unpopular opinions that go against your beliefs - but I don’t think that’s their strategy. It seems far more effective to infiltrate echo chambers and feed the narrative within them, reinforcing the beliefs people already hold. That naturally escalates tensions with those in opposing camps, whose beliefs have also been artificially amplified.

I don’t think the main goal is to spread a specific worldview - it’s to sow chaos, distrust, and push society toward implosion from the inside.

Do you seriously think someone is getting paid to come shill for a cause on Lemmy?

Hardly an issue on Lemmy?

Or does it just feel that way when everyone around you has the same views?

Doesn’t get around the fact that telling lonely people to “just go find someone to talk to” is a pretty ignorant thing to say.

It’s called a rage bait - and it’s working.

True! Then instead of spilling my coffee on the counter I could spill it on the counter instead.

Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps, right?

LLM chatbots are designed as echo chambers.

They’re designed to generate natural sounding language. It’s a tool. What you put in is what you get out.

One is 25 €/month and on-demand, and the other costs more than I can afford and would probably be at inconvenient times anyway. Ideal? No, probably not. But it’s better than nothing.

I’m not really looking for advice either - just someone to talk to who at least pretends to be interested.

I doubt it. They just think others do.

Sure - it’s just missing every single one of my friends.

I wish I had Elon Musk money so I could buy this platform and turn it back to pictures only with the main focus on professional and hobbyist photographers - not pictures of food and selfies. It used to be one of the few social media platforms I actually liked.

Not really but we occasionally refer to it as “Big Black” for obvious reasons.

The best coffee I’ve ever drank was from Aeropress but honestly, if you use freshly ground beans on a Moccamaster they’re quite difficult to tell apart.

I don’t wish to kill anyone and reading these comments makes me sick.

It’s not to protect it from cracking - it’s to stop the leftover coffee from burning onto it, since I only rinse it after use.

I don’t waste good coffee.

It’s intentional. Leaves an air gap between the pot and the hotplate.