FT86Club will not die!

[SuperTom]

Originally Posted by sly

Why do I have to use a VPN to access this site sometimes? I don't usually have to use one but sometimes it won't load and so I use a VPN. But today the US VPN didn't work either. Had to switch to Australia to get the site to load again.

Site doesnt work for me when I have VPN on. Maybe when you signed up you were using VPN I dunno

[zhutwo]

FYI new users can't get their account activated unless they find a mod to pester by PM. That's probably a big contributor to this forum's decline.

[sly]

I'd say another contributor is that people just don't use message boards anymore. It's much easier to ask an AI a question and have it spit out an answer than post and wait for hours or days on a message board. And even when they do post online, it's to social media where they're more likely to get faster responses.

[Wally86]

Originally Posted by sly

I'd say another contributor is that people just don't use message boards anymore. It's much easier to ask an AI a question and have it spit out an answer than post and wait for hours or days on a message board. And even when they do post online, it's to social media where they're more likely to get faster responses.

I'll agree that both are faster but both will lack context and understanding that's a lot easier to get when a bunch of knowledgeable people throw into a thread. I see this a LOT on FB groups and half the time people will also throw incorrect answers out without correction. Kinda wild to see.

[sly]

True. I wasn't defending the shift, just acknowledging that it's there. I personally hate using AI for research. It's usually wrong and never has the experience or wisdom of someone who has been there. It's unfortunate that message boards are disappearing. Maybe once AI has peaked and started to show how inferior it is to research, people actually talking to each other might become a thing again.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by sly

True. I wasn't defending the shift, just acknowledging that it's there. I personally hate using AI for research. It's usually wrong and never has the experience or wisdom of someone who has been there. It's unfortunate that message boards are disappearing. Maybe once AI has peaked and started to show how inferior it is to research, people actually talking to each other might become a thing again.

Not to mention AI has to learn from somewhere. A lot of it's information is gathered from these types of sites.

[new2subaru]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Not to mention AI has to learn from somewhere. A lot of it's information is gathered from these types of sites.

At this point all I see AI doing is gathering info, right or wrong, from the internet and spitting out answers that can be right or wrong. AI is an information gatherer, at least for what we're using it for.

There's no doubt it will make humans even lazier.