when Italy banned ChatGPT due to privacy concerns, I tried Bing that was still working and it’s just loads and loads better due to its access to the internet. when it got finally unblocked again, it felt like speaking to a past image of someone, rather than something alive and actual like Bing.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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Sydney-Bing was awesome when it was new, and they made it lamer and lamer. I can only imagine how much more fun it is to talk to the ones that aren't nerfed.
Tried it a few times with poor results, it will eventually get better I guess.
I stopped using it when they turned paid for something like $25 CAD per month.
Then they released a "free" version with a waitlist, which always seemed full.
Have they changed it back since? I just kinda stopped caring when I couldn't access it anymore when I needed to. And $25 CAD is crazy!
You can still use the free browser version with a free account - is not the latest and greatest version 4, but it's the same one everyone was mega excited about just several months ago
I use it for tech support- just the other day I wanted to run a python script on my android phone. From zero to working script in an hour is a huge benefit to me, it would literally have taken me days to find out what to install, how to install it, how to generate the script, how to write out the results etc.
Not sure about other countries but you should just be able to log in and use it without issues
It was in the major TV news cycle for weeks but now it's back to normal levels I'd say. Curious onlookers without a real need have moved on.
I still use it since I find it pretty useful. If I’ve got something I want to search for and I don’t know quite how to ask it, I’ll describe what I’m trying to learn about on ChatGPT. From there, it can tell me what I need to know, or at least give me enough of the relevant terminology to make it much easier for me to google it.