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AnthropoceneMan

@rose

I just recommended a niche product on a Reddit thread, only to have a helpful AI Review Bot chime in telling me why I was wrong based on product reviews it scanned…because as we know, product reviews are never wrong.

I chime in on a very specific question, AI rebuts me with a book report from questionable sources.

Thanks

28 April at 15:09 | Wall-to-wall | Open on universeodon.com
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David Nash

@Anthro @rose As one of my occasional dunks on ChatGPT, I asked it for recommendations for a small telescope for a beginning amateur astronomer.

A couple of its “recommendations” were ok, but one of them was for a Celestron PowerSeeker.

This is a model that is so bad that there is an entire subreddit dedicated to wiping it out: reddit.com/r/dontbuyapowerseek

And no, this isn’t a bunch of snobs, the astronomy equivalent of audiophiles, pouring scorn on mass-market brands. The PowerSeeker line really is terrible, not fit for purpose in any shape or form, in many ways worse than the cheap brands from the 80s and 90s that experienced observers warned newbies about back then.

@Anthro @rose As one of my occasional dunks on ChatGPT, I asked it for recommendations for a small telescope for a beginning amateur astronomer.

A couple of its “recommendations” were ok, but one of them was for a Celestron PowerSeeker.

This is a model that is so bad that there is an entire subreddit dedicated to wiping it out: reddit.com/r/dontbuyapowerseek

28 April at 17:49 | Open on neurodifferent.me
David Nash

@Anthro @rose (In case you’re curious, the stock TL;DR advice for a newbie adult amateur astronomer is just five words: “Get An Eight Inch Dobsonian.” Don’t dork around with the ones on complicated-looking mounts; simplicity is a virtue here.)

28 April at 17:53 | Open on neurodifferent.me
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