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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?

#91
The right approach IMHO is to educate those coworkers on the benefits and weaknesses of ChatGPT. This can only be handled effectively systemic, not on a case by case basis.

Btw, this is not a new problem. Even before LLM's widespread popularity, the same problem occurred with those coworkers quickly Googling an answer they do not understand and submitting that as a suggestion.

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

#93
> I then have to take the time to explain why ChatGPT's proposed solution wouldn't work,

Asking ChatGPT to provide explanation for why the ChatGPT provided solution wouldn't work is an obvious course of action.

What's postulated by ChatGPT without understanding can be dismissed by ChatGPT without understanding.

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

#95
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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 o…

The whole forum is basically drama bait. Top questions are "how do I deal with employee who slept with my wife?", "Criticized for doing my job too well" etc. None of these questions are looking for answers but instead for validation or just a good ol' watercooler chat.

Imagine a company that bills hourly and you deliver in 1 hour instead of the budgeted 20

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

#97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds to me less of an issue with ChatGPT, and more with having colleagues that don't understand how to engage in reasonable discussion or evaluate information correctly.

And the question was how to get the their coworkers to stop giving copy/pasted ChatGPT technical answers from prompts written by nontechnical people, not how ChatGPT can do a better job.

And I didn't suggest how to do so. I implied that there is an issue with the quality of their coworkers, not ChatGPT.

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

#98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds to me less of an issue with ChatGPT, and more with having colleagues that don't understand how to engage in reasonable discussion or evaluate information correctly.

It is significantly cheaper to ban a poor tool than to teach critical thinking.

The problem is with the person, not the tool. Get rid of people who can't think critically, replace them with people who can.

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

#99
Copy the suggestion into chatgpt and ask it to give a polite decline that you're able to ask CGPT yourself if you wanted a response from it. Then just copy and paste it back to them without even reading it.

Although I sympathize and I'm seeing this exact behavior in my own workplace and it's only going to get a lot worse.

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

#100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd say tell them to ask GPT why it won't work. It'll say something like "You're right, I've made a mistake...". This should illustrate that it can be helpful, but it's just aiming to please whether or not the solution is workable or sane.

Is this really your suggestion to someone dealing with a coworker making your work harder to do by gumming up the works with a bad tool? This is cult like behavior.

If the coworkers are convinced ChatGPT is a solid source of truth, showing them that ChatGPT will prove their generated answer wrong sounds more effective and time efficient to me than handwriting a refutal that they won't trust as much as GPT.
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