Chat GPT is referencing this forum!

[Frank the Insurance guy]

When I get a new enquiry I always ask how they came to hear of me.

This morning I asked and got my first "I asked GPT" !! Chatting this through with the new prospect, she had asked GPT for a niche Insurance Question and GPT came up with the answer and a link to a thread/post on this forum!

Just wanted others to know the value of providing sound advice on this forum - Chat GPT could pick it up and help you get new enquiries!

 

[fisicx]

Probably means I need to stop being a miserable old git and start offering useful advice

 

[Frank the Insurance guy]

Probably means I need to stop being a miserable old git and start offering useful advice

Don't worry - I'm sure lots of folk are asking GPT if they can find an old miserable git to talk to

 

[ctrlbrk]

Probably means I need to stop being a miserable old git and start offering useful advice

I thought I had seen a pig fly!

 

[DontAsk]

It's a double edged sword. It may also mean bad/incorrect advice is presented as being authoritative.

Can Chat GPT scan a whole thread and determine when bad advice is flagged?

 

[Ozzy]

Just wanted others to know the value of providing sound advice on this forum

In my business, we are seeing more and more of this, and have started taking proactive steps in building AI data feed as part of our marketing strategy. Already, we're seeing more and more of the positive impact of this. Hence some of the content I've published on here, because I can

We're seeing more of our customers asking AI for answers instead of using Google, it is becoming more important than traditional SEO.

 

[fisicx]

However….

I asked a coding question this morning and ChatGPT gave me a solution that was never going to work. So it’s still not that good.

 

[Ozzy]

So it’s still not that good.

Irrespective of your, or any of our personal views on the quality of answers provided by AI, it's somewhat irrelevant.

For some businesses, such as mine—and it would seem @Frank the Insurance guy, too—our market is turning more towards the likes of ChatGPT for their searches/answers. Just like any form of marketing, you need to be where your customers are looking when they are looking, so if they are looking at ChatGPT you need to be seen there.

 

[fisicx]

Totally agree. My point was that your ChatGPT prompt may not always give you the right answer. If you want general information it’s not bad. But if you need accurate details it’s not so good. And sometimes totally wrong.

 

[Ozzy]

My point was that your ChatGPT prompt may not always give you the right answer.

We all know, from discussions on other threads, that this is true. However, it isn't an issue a business owner trying to get their business in front of ChatGPT users can address themselves. This will change over time though as AI services become better at interpretation and assumption, and AI users become better trained on using better prompts.

 

[fisicx]

I’m not so sure it will get better. More and more junk AI generated content is being published which is then being consumed by the LLM. There are already tech reports of reduced accuracy and relevance.

But people will still use it and believe everything it tells them just like they do with the garbage posted on SM.

I get some leads from AI prompts but mainly from information seekers not paying clients.

 

[Newchodge]

Totally agree. My point was that your ChatGPT prompt may not always give you the right answer. If you want general information it’s not bad. But if you need accurate details it’s not so good. And sometimes totally wrong.

But that can also be true of non-AI answers on this forum, and on others.

 

[fisicx]

But that can also be true of non-AI answers on this forum, and on others.

Yes but some trust an AI generated answer but not the human response. There is probably some psychological reason for this.

 

[FreddyG]

Yes but some trust an AI generated answer but not the human response. There is probably some psychological reason for this.

Chat-GPT has improved enormously in the past couple of years. The same cannot be said of most humans. That is especially true for many of those who inhabit forums and social media!

 

[John Martin]

I’m not so sure it will get better. More and more junk AI generated content is being published which is then being consumed by the LLM. There are already tech reports of reduced accuracy and relevance.

I think a large part of the problem is that internet searches in general have got worse.

For example, if you search for 'Best' this or that, it will pull up a load of 'review' sites written by people who have never even bought or used the product. Instead they've scrapped Amazon of all their fake reviews and then stuff their site with affiliate links to those garbage products, claiming them to be 'the best'.

Now if chat-gpt had the intelligence to cut through all that nonsense and find the products that have been tested and really are best, then we might get somewhere. Perhaps in time that might happen, but I'm not seeing it yet.

 

[MarkOnline]

Totally agree. My point was that your ChatGPT prompt may not always give you the right answer. If you want general information it’s not bad. But if you need accurate details it’s not so good. And sometimes totally wrong.

Which version are you using? 4o?

 

[fisicx]

I think a large part of the problem is that internet searches in general have got worse.

For example, if you search for 'Best' this or that, it will pull up a load of 'review' sites written by people who have never even bought or used the product. Instead they've scrapped Amazon of all their fake reviews and then stuff their site with affiliate links to those garbage products, claiming them to be 'the best'.

Now if chat-gpt had the intelligence to cut through all that nonsense and find the products that have been tested and really are best, then we might get somewhere. Perhaps in time that might happen, but I'm not seeing it yet.

There is a lot of money in writing reviews fake or otherwise. It’s a huge multi million dollar industry that is growing all the time. The use of AI is making it worse.

 

[fisicx]

Which version are you using? 4o?

No idea. It’s the freebie. Don’t see any point in paying for something I use infrequently.

 

[prophet01]

I thought I had seen a pig fly!

Indeed:

 

[MarkOnline]

No idea. It’s the freebie. Don’t see any point in paying for something I use infrequently.

Thats part of your coding dilemma. 4o isnt the correct model to use for coding. You would need to pay for the most suitable model. But I have heard that professional coders are using Ai o3 version ( other versions and platforms are available) to write (and check) large amounts of code.

 

[fisicx]

Thats part of your coding dilemma. 4o isnt the correct model to use for coding. You would need to pay for the most suitable model. But I have heard that professional coders are using Ai o3 version ( other versions and platforms are available) to write (and check) large amounts of code.

It’s really not worth me paying for AI. I only use it when I’m lazy, most off the functions I need are easily found on other sites.

I’m sure some devs use it but when I did a trial with an AI expert the results weren’t very good. Trying to sanitize the outputs just didn’t work.