I Finally Found a Down Side to Yupp

I am very much a fan of Yupp (that is an affiliate link -- if you join, I get some Yupp credits).

It works like this: You ask Yupp a question, and it shows side-by-side responses from two different AI models. You choose which response you consider more useful, and say why (by clicking on pre-filled tags and optionally writing a comment), and you receive credits. You also consume credits by asking the question, but you spend less than you earn (I do anyway, but I don't do a lot of image generation queries, which cost more).

Now, in theory, you can exchange the credits for cash. At least some people can, and I appear to be one of those people.

If you are allowed to "cash out" credits, you get $1.00 per thousand.

I noticed a few minutes ago that I have 20,000+ credits accrued, and thought "hey, I wouldn't turn down ten bucks right now, and I'd still have 10,000+ credits left."

Then:

Since I see no point in spending 30 seconds, and giving them my payment information, just to get a whopping one dollar sent to PayPal, Venmo (which I don't even use) or a debit card, I guess I'll just let my credit balance grow (or, perhaps, spend more credits on generating images).

But it's still a very useful thing.

Referral Code? Yupp!

I just got an email from Yupp with a referal URL:

https://yupp.ai/join/nutritious-long-river

According to the email, if you join via this code, you get 2,500 "Yupp credits" and I get 5,000. The points are theoretically exchangeable for cash, but I haven't tried to do that and thus can't report on how it worked out.

A refresher on what Yupp is:

It's an AI chatbot comparison tool. You ask Yupp a question, and it provides answers, side by side, from two AI models. You tell it which answer you find more useful and why (by clicking on a thumbs up button and then one or more of several descriptors like "fast," "accurate," etc.). You get points each time you do that.

I've personally found Yupp more useful than just going to my preferred AI. I ask real questions I actually want answers to, and sometimes the two AIs' answers conflict. Seeing such a conflict lets me know I need to go research things manually because something ain't right.

You can also look at statistics which show you which model or models you found most useful -- and which models others found most useful.

So far, according to Yupp, I find Grok more likely to provide a correct and useful answer than, say, ChatGTP or Llama. I'm definitely an outlier, though -- Grok ranks 14th most useful among all Yupp users, which makes me wonder if there's not some kind of campaign of users down-voting Grok just to screw with Elon Musk or something.

Anyway, use it or don't. If you do, I think the 5,000 credits I get come to something like 50 cents, so it's not going to make or break my bank.