As someone who is enthusiastic about old cars the amount of knowledge that disappeared when forums got killed by fb is immeasurable. At least A.I might preserve some knowledge.
When people die they take their knowledge with them if nobody writes it down and maintains it.
Yeah bigger oof when you realise that nothing damn near anyone who tells anyone anything can be trusted.
Do you know how many times I’ve been handed the wrong part by “professionals” whose full time job is “parts interpreter” and their job description is to look up and order parts for customers? Or had a mechanic be “certain” about the cause of the same problem for the 3rd fucking time. The fact is that when I want to know which is the correct ecu pin for the crank angle sensor on an 83 Cordia Turbo thats some esoteric as fuck knowledge thats probably buried on a forum somewhere. If ChatGPT thinks it knows, I dont just wire shit up and send it. I get out the multimeter and I check that wire first.
Dont get me wrong, if googles search wasnt rubbish these days A.I wouldnt be as useful as it is. I had to find out who made the rear diff for a car to see if we could pull the gears out from a different make/model to get better ratios for the strip. An hour of googling just turned up every result for people selling diffs, selling diff seals, selling diffs for other cars, workshops that specialise in diffs, diff seals for other cars… Chat GPT just fucking knew it was an Aisin unit and what its part number was and then I asked "What cars is “part number” used in and it spat out a list. Its only good because google is shit. If google was still great, it would merely be a novelty.
i remember the databases we made of tablature on the guitar forums. i already had the songs we were playing, but… dammit i can’t even remember the name of the forum anymore it’s been like 30 years.
As someone who is enthusiastic about old cars the amount of knowledge that disappeared when forums got killed by fb is immeasurable. At least A.I might preserve some knowledge.
When people die they take their knowledge with them if nobody writes it down and maintains it.
Big oof when you realize that literally nothing an AI tells you can be trusted, and you still have to find a proper source for it.
Yeah bigger oof when you realise that nothing damn near anyone who tells anyone anything can be trusted.
Do you know how many times I’ve been handed the wrong part by “professionals” whose full time job is “parts interpreter” and their job description is to look up and order parts for customers? Or had a mechanic be “certain” about the cause of the same problem for the 3rd fucking time. The fact is that when I want to know which is the correct ecu pin for the crank angle sensor on an 83 Cordia Turbo thats some esoteric as fuck knowledge thats probably buried on a forum somewhere. If ChatGPT thinks it knows, I dont just wire shit up and send it. I get out the multimeter and I check that wire first.
Dont get me wrong, if googles search wasnt rubbish these days A.I wouldnt be as useful as it is. I had to find out who made the rear diff for a car to see if we could pull the gears out from a different make/model to get better ratios for the strip. An hour of googling just turned up every result for people selling diffs, selling diff seals, selling diffs for other cars, workshops that specialise in diffs, diff seals for other cars… Chat GPT just fucking knew it was an Aisin unit and what its part number was and then I asked "What cars is “part number” used in and it spat out a list. Its only good because google is shit. If google was still great, it would merely be a novelty.
Google was murdered when the CEO of advertising was made the CEO of search.
This is why I donate to archive.org
The problem is that AI strip’s all provenance. The most accurate information is presented exactly the same as absolute nonsense.
It makes it exceedingly difficult to sift truth from fiction, without the context clues we could otherwise use online.
Perplexity provides references for its claims, which is better than most others.
To admit to using AI is to admit to being subhuman.
😂 got ’em
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i remember the databases we made of tablature on the guitar forums. i already had the songs we were playing, but… dammit i can’t even remember the name of the forum anymore it’s been like 30 years.