When did they say it’s garbage? They gave their opinions on its shortcomings and praised some of the things it excels at. You’re calling the critics too emotional but this reply is incredibly defensive.
Your anecdotes are really cool and a great example of what GPT can do really well. But as a technical person, you’re much more aware of its limitations and what is and isn’t a good prompt for it. But as it is more and more marketed to the public, and with people already clamoring to replace traditional search engines with it, relying on the user to filter out disinformation well and not use it for prompts it struggles with isn’t good enough.
Your anecdotes are really cool and a great example of what GPT can do really well. But as a technical person, you’re much more aware of its limitations and what is and isn’t a good prompt for it. But as it is more and more marketed to the public, and with people already clamoring to replace traditional search engines with it, relying on the user to filter out disinformation well and not use it for prompts it struggles with isn’t good enough.