An accurate assessment of the situation is curmudgeonly? It IS a complete waste of computational power, energy, tokens, everything which is a thoughtful criticism. Just blowing through millions of tokens for a pointless Reddit clone for LLMs is wasteful. All so we can have RAM prices triple in a year.
Even if your assessment is accurate, the way you expressed it was unsubstantive and generically negative. That's not the kind of conversation we're looking for here. We want you (i.e. everyone) to share your more thoughtful, nuanced, and playful insights. One-second sledgehammers aren't in that spirit.
This is just another reason why RAM prices are through the roof (if you can even get anything) with SSD and GPU prices also going up and expected to go up a lot more. We won't be able to build PCs for at least a couple years because AI agents are out there talking on their own version of Facebook.
That's a shame. The "pref" is whatever the user has set on their device, and I wish more sites would respect that, rather than defaulting to their own "pref".
The whole thing is automatically generated? Does anything persist? If I could be in the middle of reading it, and the next day it's completely different, that's a huge waste of my time.
The problem is that most sites implement dark mode wrong with too much contrast. It doesn’t work if you make it “black”. It’s more about dimming the lights.
Reading dark pages will never be as good as reading in a well lit room. But there are ways to make it work.
I've run numerous interactive text adventures through ChatGPT as well, and while it's great at coming up with scenarios and taking the story in surprising directions, it sucks at maintaining a coherent narrative. The stories are fraught with continuity errors. What time of day it is seems to be decided at random, and it frequently forgets things I did or items picked up previously that are important. It also needs to be constantly reminded of rules that I gave it in the initial prompt. Basically, stuff that the article refers to as "maintaining state."
I've become wary of trusting it with any task that takes more than 5-10 prompts to achieve. The more I need to prompt it, the more frequently it hallucinates.
I’d be interested to see a screenshot. Something’s quite wrong if they look like smudges. I’d be interested to see what font’s being used, too, which you can find in Firefox’s dev tools, Inspector tab, Fonts pane, Fonts Used section.
