I still remember how a colleague told me we should do X.
I was bamboozeled and baffled by it because X was literally what it said on the flask of the chemical what you shoulf not do under any circumstances.
His explanation as to why we should was, quote “I mean I know its strange, but Copilot told me it is okay and would be fine”
The world has gone mad
I get a chill reading any historical nonfiction from the 1990s that is in any way optimistic.
“look how far we’ve come, into the new millenium!”
ehhhh… oh boy.
If we thought outsourcing thinking to religions was bad, hoo boy. This shit is next level.
When the boss pulls this on you and you ask for it in writing only to tell them: "I’m still not going to do it but now I have a written instruction from you to do something suicidally reckless”
If I wanted to know what a chatbot says, I would have asked it myself.
Hmm, you do make a fair point. Chatbots, indeed, are absolutely not velociraptors.
… So FAR.
One of my coworkers who’s into AI has a chatbot set to behave as they were an elder got, talk about code as incantations, etc.
I wonder if, had he requested it be a velociraptor, he would have gotten mostly aggressive reptilian noises as a response.
i might have been convinced that chatbots could’ve had some utility as sort of advanced ‘rubber duck debugging’, but in my humble opinion talking to an actual rubber ducky is a superior process because literal rubber duckies are not known for telling us to kill ourselves unless we’ve taken a truly apocalyptic quantity of hallucinogens.
Don’t ask chatgpt, I can tell you bullshit too and I’m beautiful
Dig this energy. Shine on.
what about “chatgpt says copy paste of LLM output”?
might as well be a fucking bot
I got a worse one. copy paste of LLM output without any mention of the source…
People seem to love being bots, half of the human internet is literally just people repeating the same shitty stuff over and over millions of times. Like half of the comments on any youtube video being “babe, wake up”, “legendary refresh pull” etc.
And people only watching, listening to, playing, eating, wearing etc. the current popular things just because they are popular, they need to be the same as everyone else and think that people who doesn’t do that are weird and bad. It’s truly disturbing IMO.
The most infuriating part is that they think this will actually convince you
I can barely use the internet anymore. I have to filter by date to get results from before 2024. Otherwise all the results are obvious AI trash.
When I tried to look up information about storing film negatives. Pretty obscure niche topic these days. The top pre-2024 result was from a well respected national archive, good informative page written by experts in the field.
By contrast, the current day results were an endless sea of random websites who all by sheer coincidence decided to start writing about film archival in the year 2025.
by now, saying “i did a search” and actually having done a search and found stuff AND shared the link feels like a “good skill to have” again.
my brother (14 y/ooooo sooooooo skibidi) uses mister gpt for all web searching which sucks big time. whenever he does use a real life search engine, hes surprised by the amount of stuff he finds by now.
EDIT: fixed some typos…
It would be a “good skill to have” if they haven’t actively been making search engines worse, so they can make AI look better.
How the fuck could AskJeeves from 20 years ago work better than search engines of today?
i believe search engines have been degrading prior to the LMs but might be misremembering…
I tried looking up the decline but…
That sentence is a self-issued Certificate Of Stupidity.
I wish i could tell these people my honest thoughts about their idiocy but that would cause… issues…
it’s ok, they won’t lash out at you on it, not at least until they ask chatGPT if they should be mad
“i asked chatgpt to calculate…”
I asked chatGPT to fuck off
Off topic: If said in french “ChatGPT” translates back to “Cat, I farted” - you’re welcome
I had an Uber passenger that straight up said,“well I asked grok about restaurants around here…”
Like no infuriation, as much as pity.
I’ve started encountering the occasional “I had ChatGPT summarize the issue for us” (Almost invariably three pages of nothing that could remotely be considered a summary) at work, and my reflex has been to nope the fuck out and move on to a different ticket. No faster way to move yourself to the bottom of my queue. Have fun getting ChatGPT to fix it. I want to work with humans, not their weird little emotional support sock puppets.
A sock puppet would be more helpful because at least talking with one will help you reason through your problems.
I’m increasingly seeing this used as a disclaimer, as in, “don’t trust what I’m about to say; I went with the source that’s 90% useless because when I Googled it the search results were 100% useless”.
