I run a small VPS host and rely on PayPal for payments, mainly because (a) most VPS customers pay that way if you aren’t AWS or GoDaddy and (b) very good fraud protection. My prior venture had quite a bit of chargebacks from Stripe so it went PP-only also.

My dad told me I should “reduce the processing fees” and inaccurately cited that ChatGPT told him PayPal has 5% fees when it really has 3-3.5% fees (plus 49 cents). Yet he insisted 5% was the charge.

Yes, PayPal sucks but ChatGPT sucks even more. When I was a child he said Toontown would ruin my brain, yet LLMs are ruining his even more.

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    15 days ago

    He didn’t cite wrong information (only) because of ChatGPT, but because he lacks the instinct (or training, or knowledge) to verify the first result he either sees or likes.

    If he had googled for the information and his first click was an article that was giving him the same false information, he would’ve probably insisted just the same.

    LLMs sure make this worse, as much more information coming out of them is wrong, but the root cause is the same it’s been before their prevalence. Coincidentally it’s the reason misinformation campaigns work so well and are so easy.

    Edit: removed distraction