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My dad cited inaccurate information because of ChatGPT (eviltoast.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I run a small VPS host and rely on PayPal for payments, mainly because (a) most VPS customers pay that way if you aren't AWS or GoDaddy and (b) very good fraud protection. My prior venture had quite a bit of chargebacks from Stripe so it went PP-only also.

My dad told me I should "reduce the processing fees" and inaccurately cited that ChatGPT told him PayPal has 5% fees when it really has 3-3.5% fees (plus 49 cents). Yet he insisted 5% was the charge.

Yes, PayPal sucks but ChatGPT sucks even more. When I was a child he said Toontown would ruin my brain, yet LLMs are ruining his even more.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah, yea, sorry, my brain scrambled that. But same point really. Chatgpt doesn't always pull from the current official website for its data either, so same problem. Chatgpt and Google are loudly marketing, "Hey you don't need to search for the info, our AI will give it to you," when the Ai is wrong a lot.