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College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting
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Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
With “sent from my iPhone” it’s an excuse for brevity and/or typos. Consider that the iPhone’s keyboard was a downgrade from the Blackberry that was previously standard among business users. The automatically-appended disclaimer saves the sender a bit of stress.
that's one take. Personally I think it was motivated by trying to create a marketed feeling of exclusivity , drive a stake between Those With and Those Without, and alienate those without into buying an iProduct and joining The Club.
The Blackberry had “Sent via Blackberry” before iPhones exsisted.
Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
With “sent from my iPhone” it’s an excuse for brevity and/or typos. Consider that the iPhone’s keyboard was a downgrade from the Blackberry that was previously standard among business users. The automatically-appended disclaimer saves the sender a bit of stress.
that's one take. Personally I think it was motivated by trying to create a marketed feeling of exclusivity , drive a stake between Those With and Those Without, and alienate those without into buying an iProduct and joining The Club.
Maybe a little bit less sinister than that. Just a way to promote the product in every email originating from their devices
Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe they thought it would be worse if someone found out and it was exposed that they didn't cite their source.
It's not a source in this case - if I understand correctly, they used ChatGPT to rewrite a message written by them.
I understood it differently. Saying the email is a “paraphrase from ChatGPT” seems more like they had ChatGPT generate it, and then modified or “paraphrased” it themselves
Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting
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Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
that's one take. Personally I think it was motivated by trying to create a marketed feeling of exclusivity , drive a stake between Those With and Those Without, and alienate those without into buying an iProduct and joining The Club.
Maybe a little bit less sinister than that. Just a way to promote the product in every email originating from their devices
Regardless of the reason, I think less of anyone who doesn't turn it off. Made me cringe so badly when I sent an email from a new email client that added something similar and I hadn't checked the signature.
One reason I feel that way is that the only time I'd see it in a work context is if it's a phishing email.
Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting
#27"Samuel Lu, a sophomore, told the student paper: 'It’s hard to take a message seriously when I know that the sender didn’t even take the time to put their genuine thoughts and feelings into word. In times of tragedies such as this, we need more, not less humanity.' "
Those Deans should be fired.
Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting
#28there are better sources than DailyMail for news like this
If you think the source is bad for whatever reason, could you link some that you think are better?
In case parent comment context is not clear, since it is UK-specific: the Daily Mail has a bit of a reputation in the Uk among some for being low quality and inflammatory.
Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the only thing they did wrong. Why mention you used ChatGPT? It's like emails that end with "sent from my iPhone" like who cares what technology you used to send an email?
With “sent from my iPhone” it’s an excuse for brevity and/or typos. Consider that the iPhone’s keyboard was a downgrade from the Blackberry that was previously standard among business users. The automatically-appended disclaimer saves the sender a bit of stress.
Even though I could change it, I never bothered to remove the default signature. It works pretty well as a disclaimer because most people don’t bother to remove it. Therefore, you’re able to signal you’re not replying in an optimal manner without the other person feeling slighted.
Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting
#30I am not sure what opinion I have on this one. - Deans are paid a lot. Our dean make a quarter mil. - Mass shooting emails should _probably_ have a human touch. - Heck, any human tragedy email should _probably_ have a human touch. - Does the university want to pay the Dean to write emails? - Does the Dean want to write emails? - What is the Dean doing for a quarter mil a year? - Probably playing around with ChatGPT?…
Haha, this is why sometimes people don't really like "five whys" - you can get to an uncomfortable place pretty quickly...
Q1. Why was the service down for so long? A1: Because the on-call engineer didn't respond to the pager
Q2: Why didn't the on-call engineer respond? A2: Because they're exhausted from being on-call so often since the team was downsized
Q3: Why was the team downsized? A3: Because the manager's manager's manager is reducing headcount this year?
Q4: Why is the manager's manager's manager reducing headcount? A4: Because they're trying to bring the departments spend down for the year
Q5: Why are they trying to bring the spend down? A5: Because they know their boss, the CTO, is interviewing at the moment. And the CFO is golf buddies with the CEO, and the CFO is always going on about improving efficiency. So if the manager's manager's manager can reduce spend this year it'll look really efficient to the CFO, and maybe they can line-up that CTO role when their boss leaves.
(sarcasm?)