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How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

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Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

#52
I hate that the top voted answer is tattle to the boss. The poster and artists are both adults, and it is tagged communication.

It seems like the first step should just be ignoring it or communicating the issue to them. Something like setup a meeting to go through a couple of examples of the flaws in extreme detail, that the solutions many times lack the context to come up with a great answer, you appreciate they're trying to help you figure out the solution with ChatGPT but it's not necessary because you also have access to ChatGPT and leverage it when you can.

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

#53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, they pretty much explicitly disclaim those questions that don't have cut and dried answers. But I think that means they never should have dipped into topics like "workplace", which has vanishingly few cut and dried topics.

On these sites the idea is that answers belong in the top-level answer posts where they can be voted up and down for the purpose of sorting the competing ideas and forms of responses to the primary question post. Criticisms should remain in the comments until they are integrated and addressed in the answers, at which point they are obsolete and can be removed. Therefore chats belong elsewhere, and are helpfully moved…

That's, uh, not quite what I was talking about.

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

#56
Wow the questioner and most of the top responses are overcomplicating this so much. The best response is the simple truth: "ChatGPT only says what's statistically likely in a given situation, which means it comes up with something plausible-sounding, but not necessarily true. Sometimes it suggests programming tricks that don't exist, for example."

Put it in a text file for pasting repeatedly, and ignore any replies of protest.

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

#57

I hate that the top voted answer is tattle to the boss. The poster and artists are both adults, and it is tagged communication. It seems like the first step should just be ignoring it or communicating the issue to them. Something like setup a meeting to go through a couple of examples of the flaws in extreme detail, that the solutions many times lack the context to come up with a great answer, you appreciate they're…

It's not "tattle to the boss", it's using a manager as a resource to help a team work together more effectively. That's part of what they're paid for. If it was one person, a 1::1 could make sense, but they're getting swamped by teammates interrupting their work, it's not their job to deal with that and delegating it to the person whose job it is makes a lot of sense.

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

#58

I hate that the top voted answer is tattle to the boss. The poster and artists are both adults, and it is tagged communication. It seems like the first step should just be ignoring it or communicating the issue to them. Something like setup a meeting to go through a couple of examples of the flaws in extreme detail, that the solutions many times lack the context to come up with a great answer, you appreciate they're…

> artists are both adults

Are they? Adults usually employ critical thinking and his artist colleagues obviously dont. It’s not OP’s task to explain the flaws in openai’s product. Top reply is right - raise it with their manager. If the artists are unhappy they can contact openai’s customer support for details on why the product doesnt work as advertised.

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

#59

Several months ago, I received a report that I believed to be generated by an LLM, rather than original work. So I asked my coworkers on Slack about their expert opinion: do you believe this is original work or not? The only answer I received was from a guy who copy-pasted it into an "LLM detector" and uncritically copy-pasted the output for me. This response got several thumbs-up from management and mentors. Geez, i…

I mean, tbh that sounds more like the person was passively aggressively telling you that you should have been able to figure it out yourself.

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

#60

Love the irony that it's asked on a StackExchange site.

Because reading StackExchange is how ChatGPT got good?

One day ChatGPT will start answering "Don't use ChatGPT" because it will be trained on these discussions.
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