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Re: Stop Sloppypasta

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Post by r-w »

namnnumbr wrote: post #47
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #40

If I was a bot I would probably write some perfectly punctuated garbage about how your site is a crucial testament to the ever evolving digital landscape or use big words to delve into the multifaceted tapestry of internet ethics. But honestly your website about stopping sloppy pasta is just so dumb and a complete waste of time. Your acting like somebody writing a fake story with ai is the end of the world or somethi…

if you used an AI, I'd love to see the prompts you used to get such human grammar and spelling errors

Why bake it into the prompt when a regex will do?

Re: Stop Sloppypasta

#93

Post by lich_king »

madrox wrote: post #48
lich_king wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that "it's more of the same" is a good way to think about it. The internet contained a lot of low-quality content, but even low-quality content used to be fairly expensive and time-consuming to produce. Further, you could immediately discern bottom-of-the-barrel content-farmed nonsense by the writing style alone. Now, LLMs make it practically free to generate unlimited amounts of slop that drowns out hu…

Yet how are the alternative ways of thinking about it better? Spending your time angry about what others can do? In any era, that’s a poor life philosophy. The problem is the same as it has always been. Figure out how to use your time and attention effectively,

A sufficient number of people being angry about something is how you end up with social norms. These norms will shape how the technology is used.

Conversely, if your take is that there's no point being angry and we should just take it in stride, that just emboldens the producers of slop.

Re: Stop Sloppypasta

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Post by aurareturn »

unsaved159 wrote: post #73

Literally never in my life did I receive anything like that website suggests via email or DMs. Curate your social circle is the answer.

I got one from my office, who at some point decided to use ChatGPT to write Asana tickets that are clearly not vetted.

Re: Stop Sloppypasta

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Post by beepbooptheory »

madrox wrote: post #48
lich_king wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that "it's more of the same" is a good way to think about it. The internet contained a lot of low-quality content, but even low-quality content used to be fairly expensive and time-consuming to produce. Further, you could immediately discern bottom-of-the-barrel content-farmed nonsense by the writing style alone. Now, LLMs make it practically free to generate unlimited amounts of slop that drowns out hu…

Yet how are the alternative ways of thinking about it better? Spending your time angry about what others can do? In any era, that’s a poor life philosophy. The problem is the same as it has always been. Figure out how to use your time and attention effectively,

Is it possible to be critical without being angry? Are the only options here misplaced ire or total queiescent fatalism? Does the site here even seem excessively angry?

Re: Stop Sloppypasta

#96

Post by czhu12 »

I’ve encountered an even more nightmarish version of this recently: ai generated tickets. Basically dumping the output of “write a detailed product spec for a clinical trial data collection pipeline” into a jira ticket and handing it off.

Doesn’t match any of our internal product design, adds tons of extraneous features. When I brought this up with said PM they basically responded that these inaccuracies should just be brought up in the sprint review and “partnering” with the engineering team. AI etiquette is something we’ll all have to learn in the coming years.

Re: Stop Sloppypasta

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Post by bandrami »

madrox wrote: post #8

I find that I don't have a lot of sympathy for people angry at this type of behavior, even though I share the disdain for someone else's AI output. The people doing this kind of thing are not the kind of people to be reading this manifesto. We've been creating bait content for a long time, and humans have never been given the tools to manage this in any sophisticated fashion. The internet was not a bastion of high qu…

Everybody wants to use LLMs to produce things and absolutely nobody wants to consume the things that LLMs produce and this is the fundamental reason this is all going to collapse unless we find a way for producers to pay consumers to consume their LLM output.

Re: Stop Sloppypasta

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Post by stingraycharles »

czhu12 wrote: post #96

I’ve encountered an even more nightmarish version of this recently: ai generated tickets. Basically dumping the output of “write a detailed product spec for a clinical trial data collection pipeline” into a jira ticket and handing it off. Doesn’t match any of our internal product design, adds tons of extraneous features. When I brought this up with said PM they basically responded that these inaccuracies should just…

As someone who maintains open source projects, I can assure you that this has been a problem for about a year or so. But I reckon it took a bit longer for people to start doing this at work as well.
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