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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.
I’ve been thinking about the future of this type of “AI fatigue”. Microsoft 365 Copilot has embedded this feature in Outlook, Teams, Word, etc. I’m concerned that people’s desire and ability to read content from coworkers will significantly decrease, because…why spend my life reading something that “Bob” didn’t even write? I’m not the only one thinking about this. M365 Copilot even has a “Make it sound like me” butto…
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.
What was requested was personal "expert" judgment, what was received was the unendorsed output of a tool which no one can hold accountable.
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…
> I then have to take the time to explain why ChatGPT's proposed solution wouldn't work, which is tedious and difficult when the other persons do not understand many of the basic ideas involved. They also seem skeptical, and I get the idea they feel I'm incompetent because as I understand it ChatGPT is very useful in their setting, and they have come to believe it to be the ultimate source of knowledge.
You can create counterpoint arguments with ChatGPT... Sh t in / Sh t out. Everybody happy. Years back during big outsourcing project, this never ending conversation (between human teams) were big part of it.
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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.
This is also what it looks like when someone is avoiding being pinned down / responsible for a judgment or decision. What was requested was personal "expert" judgment, what was received was the unendorsed output of a tool which no one can hold accountable.
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This is also what it looks like when someone is avoiding being pinned down / responsible for a judgment or decision. What was requested was personal "expert" judgment, what was received was the unendorsed output of a tool which no one can hold accountable.
I mean yeah, I can understand that, except that it was a team channel, and nobody needed to respond at all. So how in the world was I pinning anyone down? And why did a couple senior folks endorse that answer? Were they pinned down as a result?
The conscientious people in the chat will have a hard time ignoring an unanswered query, so answering with the tool's output alone forms a sort of compromise.
This can potentially be defused by first stating what you think and asking for a second opinion, but of course, the easy out there is to simply endorse whatever is already on the table (maybe like your senior folks).
I was only suggesting that the situation could be more nuanced than a coworker implicitly suggesting "just google it for fuck's sake", but for all I know, it wasn't.
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…
OP has literally done exactly what you're suggesting, and it hasn't worked. Going to the manager is literally what you're supposed to do next. > I then have to take the time to explain why ChatGPT's proposed solution wouldn't work, which is tedious and difficult when the other persons do not understand many of the basic ideas involved. They also seem skeptical, and I get the idea they feel I'm incompetent because as…
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.
As an employee, before I escalate any issue I always try to do my best to fix it myself first (barring some efficiency gain like it's far easier for someone else to resolve). And as a manager I appreciate reports who do the same.
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And I didn't suggest how to do so. I implied that there is an issue with the quality of their coworkers, not ChatGPT.
And since nobody implied it was a problem with ChatGPT itself, I pointed that out. Glad we cleared all of this up.