I refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT

If I went on a few dates with someone and was really having a great time, but they told me that all their planning and conversation pieces were from a gen AI platform, I absolutely wouldn't like that. If they used it to audit some code to check for any performance considerations though? Those are so different, at least to me.

This quote:

> A good friend recently told me that she spent a night with a man, and in the morning suggested they get breakfast together. He took out his phone, opened ChatGPT, and asked for restaurant suggestions. Why get close to someone who outsources decisions, including the fun ones like picking where to eat?

Is one I find fair. There is some humanity to choosing some place to eat with another human. It also doesn't feel crazy to me to outsource the gathering and ranking to ChatGPT, though.

Then a lot of the article banks on "societal harm":

> OK, so ChatGPT helps you write your grocery list. Does your individual convenience outweigh the societal harm it can cause?

With some of the things that the article points out to, like water and power usage, I can also see the argument there. But then you can point to so many other things with similar arguments. A classic being "you're using an iPhone right now, don't you know how those are made".

This quote also feels along these lines to me:

> Pereira thinks that using ChatGPT “shows such a laziness”.

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>“It’s like you can’t think for yourself, and you have to rely on an app for that,” she said.

But we all use Google and a million other services that "remove thinking". This just feels like an additional step (depending on the case, as mentioned above).

I have no idea where to stand on any of this. There's so much to consider and I feel like I can only find one side or the other online to read about. No one with a middle ground that makes sense (that I've stumbled upon).

That said, I do think there's a huge difference between having it draft your love letters for you and having it tell you how to best treat a cut you got on your finger.

It's fairly telling that the people who hold these strong opinions think of themselves as strong independent thinkers but are slavishly devoted to the opinions of an algorithm.

I think there are a lot of decent reasons to be skeptical of AI. But this doesn't read like someone who is thoughtfully cautious and has concerns over actual issues with LLMs - this reads like someone in the 50s reading about microwaves and committing to never own one.