New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

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Lol nice, it's 404'd now

Probably just an anecdote, but notice more sus medium content recently. Used to be niche Python tutorials.

The advent of ChatGPT has made those obsolete, since ChatGPT is probably trained on all of those.

Side note, it doesn't always fuck up, but most of the time it'll give just completely wrong matplot instructions. The recent tattoo post comes to mind.

It's good for python stuff, specifically, potentially because python as a language is the closest we have to a natural, descriptive programming language, and as an LLM that might make connections between functional behavior and language easier. That said, it sometimes tells you to do things that won't work because the libraries you're using have some specific incompatibility issues between them and the only way you can find out is via github issue discussions.