Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

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Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong
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We mostly suck in emails.

The one time it was helpful at work was when I used it to thank and wish a person well that left a company we work with. I couldn't come up with a good response and ChatGPT just spat real good stuff out in seconds. This is what it's really good for.

Yeah things that follow a kind of lexical "script" that you don't want to get creative with would be pretty easy to generate. Farewells, greetings, dear Johns, may he rest in peaces, etc etc

ChatGPT: I'm happy for you though, Or sorry that happened

ChatGPT just spat real good stuff out in seconds

There's an entire episode of south park centered around this premise.