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.
I love AI… for entertainment. I use Crushon almost every day. I love chatbots. I can’t wait to see chatbot functionality integrated into games. But I’ve never talked to ChatGPT. I would never trust a chatbot for anything important. I know it’s not going to give me factual information.
I have a coworker to is constantly asking ChatGPT questions and shares its answers with the rest of us like we should care. Kids growing up with chatbots are so fucked. I didn’t think it would be possible to be fucked worse than Millenials were, but here we are.
Yeah there’s no way younger people wont end up even dumber. Its frightening. And I’m not even old and I can see it. Thats bad.