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i'll at least try out the subscription service

i use it for tons of stuff

i'm learning some foreign languages, and like to read newspaper articles in the target language. chatgpt is great at translating, and, what is really killer, i can ask follow-up questions to explain acronyms, references to people / institutions, etc. really just absolutely amazing. can also ask it to break down compound words (quite handy for german!)

also great for programming/script questions. e.g., "write a git-push hook that errors out if a commit contains 'DO NOT PUSH'". i could figure that stuff out on my own, but it's way faster to have ChatGPT get me started. or for unity questions -- somehow chatgpt knows way more about unity than unity's own docs. :-)

finally, i just find it useful for random questions. e.g., "recommend a good, cheap kitchen knife". "i have X, Y, Z ingredients, what's something tasty i can make?"

it's honestly amazing.

i do hit the content filter quite a lot tho (w/ innocuous stuff, i'm not even trying to do anything spicy!) -- i defnly wish premium would have a mode to turn that off, or at least turn it way down.

if they persist in this, i'd assume over time some rival w/o the filter will eat their lunch. (unless such filters get legislated -- which is certainly a not-unlikely possibility.)



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