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There are also lots of people using Shreddit to remove their entire log of comments.
I'm debating whether or not to do that with my account... I have several comments with solutions to specific tech issues, documentation on specific things. At the same time, I feel less and less comfortable with Reddit benefiting from information users provided for free.
Honestly? ChatGPT (4) is basically a stackoverflow 2.0. It’s my goto when I want help with specific problems. There are alternative options, is what I mean.
I deleted all my comments on Reddit. I do not want them to benefit from my knowledge even if it might inconvenience someone else
The big problem with chatGTP is that you never can be sure that it's right, you need to check it. On reddit and sites like it, you can see the amount of upvotes, which shows you if they are right or not.
I have seen a lot of highly upvoted comments on reddit which were very, very wrong.
I still use reddit for help on things. But for topics that I'm less knowledgeable about (so I can't gauge the accuracy myself), I try to just take everything with a grain of salt.
It helps that if something is wrong on Reddit, another redditor usually points it out since there are many eyes on any particular thread.
Yes, I always enjoyed getting down voted for the correct answer.
True, but the chance of it being wrong is substantially smaller than the chance of chatGTP dreaming up something.