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I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good (ani.social)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I tried it in the past, I kinda didn't take it seriously because everything was confined to its instance, but now, there's full-featured global search and proper federation everywhere? Wow, I thought I heard there were some technical obstacles making it very unlikely, but now it's just there and works great! I asked ChatGPT and it says this feature was added 5 years ago! Really? I'm not sure how I didn't notice this sooner. Was it really there for so long? With flairs showing original instance where video comes from and everything?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I asked chat gpt

Lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I asked ChatGPT and it thinks OP made a humorous comment

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

The spirit is there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"I asked ChatGPT" and my post got 180 replies 🔥

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

We used to post pictures of beans on Lemmy and get five hundred replies

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We need the slapping batman meme when Robin says "I asked ChatGPT"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doing the Lord's work!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I try!

[–] [email protected] 245 points 3 days ago (22 children)

I asked ChatGPT

Why do people bring this up every fucking time?

[–] [email protected] 98 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because they know it's not accurate and explicitly mention it so you know where this information comes from.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Then why post it at all?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Because they'd still like to know? it's generally expected to do some research on your own before asking other people, and inform them of what you've already tried

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Asking ChatGPT isn’t research.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ChatGPT is a moderately useful tertiary source. Quoting Wikipedia isn't research, but using Wikipedia to find primary sources and reading those is a good faith effort. Likewise, asking ChatGPT in and of itself isn't research, but it can be a valid research aid if you use it to find relevant primary sources.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

At least some editor will usually make sure Wikipedia is correct. There’s nobody ensuring chatGPT is correct.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

"I used chatgpt"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I asked Gemini, and my browser crashed, so, idk, man I guess it's knowledge too powerful for human minds to contain.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

People also say they googled, unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Not the same thing.

google allows for the possibility that the user was able to think critically about sources that a search returned

chapGPT is drunk uncle confidently stating a thing they heard third hand from Janet in accounting and then taking him at his word

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

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John Smith wrote at 12:28 on Friday

Peertube is actually developed by a transphobic communist who turned my daughter gay. Boycott!!!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

At this point, ad blocker is pretty much mandatory for me, just like how antivirus software used to be a decade ago (probably more)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

but at least your drunk uncle won't boil the oceans in the process too

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If ChatGPT said it was added five years ago, that means it was added anywhere between 13.8 billions years ago and never.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Chatgpt is wrong BTW. But yeah its been there for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why the fuck do people ask ChatGPT for shit like this? ChatGPT doesn't know facts. It's a magic 8-ball with more words.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Asking chatgpt can be super useful to get info. I just don't understand why people don't try to verify what it says before just re-posting like fact.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For basic fact checking like this, it's basically useless. You'd have to go look it up to verify anyway, so it's just an extra step. There's use cases for it, but this isn't it

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If you are just going to verify the info, why not just find out yourself and save yourself some time?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It depends on what info you're trying to find.

I was recently trying to figure out the name of a particular uncommon type of pipe fitting. I could describe what it looked like, but had no idea what it was called. I described it to chatgpt, which gave me a name, which I could then search for with a normal search engine to confirm that the name was correct. Sure enough, search results took me to plumbing supply companies selling it, with pictures that matched what I described.

But, asking it when a particular feature got added to a piece of software? There's no additional information one would get from the answer to help them confirm that the answer is correct.

ETA: The above strategy has also failed me many times, though, where chatgpt gives me information that follow-up searches only confirmed that chatgpt hallucinated the answer. Just wanted to say that to reinforce that you have to assume it's hallucinating until you get independent confirmation.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why bother even using CGPT when you have to go elsewhere to verify everything it says anyway?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v2.3.0

ChatGPT is correct? The irony of people confidently asserting that ChatGPT is wrong, while being wrong, seems to be lost on the crowd here. Kinda makes you understand why ChatGPT is often so confident even when wrong.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Chatgpt is wrong BTW

LOL at this point I just assume that anytime someone cites it. It's infuriating that people seem to think it knows dick about shit. Just mass disinformation, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wanted to say: No, according to Wikipedia global search launched in 2020.

But that actually was 5 years ago, damn.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Getting older... There's a creaking in my bones... 2020 was 5 years ago...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Don't listen to them 2020 was like last year. Also the 90s was ten years ago don't let anyone tell you different.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I have to say I think Peertube itself is good, but the content still isn't there yet. Of course we all know that's because there isn't cash to be made on Peertube

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Counter point: I dont want to watch content that has a monetary incentive behind it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why exactly do you think people create content for you to consume in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Sharing knowledge. Lots of people are not primarily motivated by greed.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Plenty of people uploaded stuff to youtube for years before it started giving them any money

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I must be doing something wrong or using a shit instance cause I can't find one at all but everytime I go to peertube (and I"m not searching just locally) I see like 3 videos get posted a day, most of which are videos about Lies of P or car videos. LIke there's no content.

so...what am I doing wrong?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Either poorly-federated instance, or you look in the wrong place? Here's a good one: https://peertube.wtf/videos/browse?live=false

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah I finally made an account and there is more than enough here to satisfy my mealtime watching needs. Still not a lot of content when compared to the mainstream platforms, but that reminds me of all the fediverse offerings a few years ago.

I feel like it's only a matter of time before there's enough on peertubes to keep me off the mainstreams almost entirely.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (7 children)

You asked ChatGPT and thought it gave you a correct answer…? 🤣

For real though, Peertube is awesome now. Live streaming works a treat, so many plugins and add ons that make it great. Not to mention it now has its own app which is great.