The thing about ChatGPT, I don't know if the answer is wrong or made up. I have a friend who helps me with Swedish and he isn't a language tutor - so sometimes he asks ChatGPT to explain something I've asked him. The crucial difference is that he's knowledgeable enough on the matter to vet the quality and then pass the information to me. If he or I were to just ask ChatGPT without any verification, then I would not be able to trust the answer.

No.

People pasting full llm outputs into help forum responses has been one of the most annoying trends.

If you can’t do more than what a llm would say, you’re already replaceable.

I don't like the idea of telling people (even smugly at worst, if it's used the way LMGTFY was, and as the tagline[1] implies) to just ask ChatGPT instead of humans.

LMGTFY returned human results that weren't SEO rubbish at the time for the most part, which you could classify yourself (or by others) as trustworthy or not. ChatGPT itself still sometimes hallucinates on pretty basic information and other users don't get exactly the same result as you.

[1] "Someone else asked ChatGPT for you. Appreciate it."

Never liked LMGTFY because it was always used in a snarky manner. But at least it somewhat was useful in that it mostly showed results as a springboard for the user to (hopefully) start learning how to parse information on the web.

This is taking it a step further to some form of intellectual learned helplessness.

Well this exceeded my expectations.

https://letmegptthatforyou.com/a/wcDtF

LMGTFY was always slightly irritating, but this is another level. "Instead of answering, why don't you ask a magic robot to make up plausible-looking text?" Bloody hell.

foul: https://letmegptthatforyou.com/stats

Probably missed opportunity to add authoritative answer and give a feedback loop to gpt

Wow this is even more obnoxious than the already insufferable LMGTFY.

Back when we were smug asking people to just fn google stuff, we would be right in that they could find a correct answer out there.

Today, everyone's dad work at Nintendo. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I really try hard not to be down on stuff like this, to let it pass uncommented, but the mere creation of this site is evidence that creator missed the point of the original that they derived it from.

lol it's made with Claude