[HN Gopher] How ChatGPT was built from the people who made it
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       How ChatGPT was built from the people who made it
        
       Author : mgl
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2023-03-05 18:30 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | glorioushubris wrote:
       | This is a fun example of how much difference a comma can make.
       | "How ChatGPT was built, from the people who made it" is what this
       | article should have been titled. "How ChatGPT was built from the
       | people who made it" means something very different.
        
         | bsg75 wrote:
         | I.e. Soylent Green ?
        
       | ars wrote:
       | Unrelated to the article, but I had to close three popovers
       | before I could read it.
       | 
       | Do the people who make these websites not realize how unusable
       | they're making them?
       | 
       | And then even bigger question is: In the entire world do they
       | think there is a _single_ person who actually wants to interact
       | with these popovers before reading the article?
        
         | siva7 wrote:
         | If your performance is measured by these signup metrics, guess
         | what a mediocre manager will do
        
           | rvnx wrote:
           | This was exactly the problem at Twitter, as the goal is to
           | increase the number of accounts and daily active logged-in
           | users, they blocked the website for non-logged users using a
           | floating popover modal box (and it was only recently
           | changed).
        
             | jiggawatts wrote:
             | I call these "KPI overlays". As in, I need to get in the
             | way of what you're here for to hit my KPIs.
        
         | layer8 wrote:
         | It seems you don't use an ad blocker?
         | 
         | I would assume that it makes them enough money to sustain the
         | business, despite what users may think of it, so that's what
         | they do.
        
       | yunohn wrote:
       | TBH GPT/AI just felt like the most obvious topic for VCs and
       | crypto grifters to shift their combined hype and focus.
       | Obviously, they don't want to devalue their work by mentioning
       | this.
        
         | dd36 wrote:
         | Crypto was never useful.
        
           | noloblo wrote:
           | bitcoin/cryptocurrency is useful as a store of value under
           | kleptocratic regimes and super inflationary economies sadly
           | the USA has become very inflationary due to fed printing
           | infinite $$s under the guise of pandemic rescue.
           | 
           | The rest alt-coins, tokens yes I agree with you are never
           | useful except for grift
        
       | tkgally wrote:
       | The following quote is food for thought for people who have been
       | wondering whether AI development needs to be regulated:
       | 
       | "I would love to understand better what's driving all of this--
       | what's driving the virality. Like, honestly, we don't understand.
       | We don't know."
        
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