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Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Post by lioeters »

lc9er wrote: post #42
naich wrote: post #7

Obviously you need to use an AI to summarise the wall of text generated by the AI. Duh.

There’s someone in this thread unironically suggesting this.

Pretty sure there's an implicit dynamic where the more someone uses AI, the more you require AI to understand and work with what it produced. If everyone around you is using AI, you are pressured to use AI to keep up with their level of "productivity". Like a cultural virus it multiplies in the space between people, I guess meme-like but far more virulent. Sure it empowers us, but at what cost.

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Post by jjulius »

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #47
microtonal wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you use an AI to write chat messages? Either you have to give the AI the points you want to convey, then just put those points in a message. Or you don't have anything to convey, then don't post a message. I don't see why anyone would want a slopified version of whatever it was that I had to say.

> I don't see why anyone would want a slopified version of whatever it was that I had to say. Lots of people lack confidence around their writing, and many people (particularly in tech) are not english native speakers. I can definitely see both of those groups getting use out of AI assistance in writing. That being said, I sometimes use AI to see if I've missed anything, but the last thing I'll give up to our future…

>Lots of people lack confidence...

Not to single out OP or anything, but the more we do things on our own, the more likely we are to build our confidence. Relying on something or someone to hold our hand risks slowing down personal growth.

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Post by emsign »

I've noticed this happening here as well. The instance I realize it's not another human I lose all interest in argueing or conversing. If this happens too often I leave those sites.

Because nothing feels more like wasting my time than talking to an answering machine that is working against me. It's exhausting and demotivating.

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Post by Forgeties79 »

keybored wrote: post #46
hootz wrote: post #30

Then at the end, "Use AI to make things clearer". NO! STOP USING AI AND JUST TALK!

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The problem with this logic, no matter the context where it’s deployed, is that you can always default to “you’re doing it wrong” no matter what case or situation is brought up. It’s an argument that is unfalsifiable no matter what because you can simply gesture to the person as the problem in literally any scenario.

If I build a car and it consistently gets into wrecks at a rate 500x that of other cars, you can’t just keep saying “operator error.” At some point you have to ask, ”why do operators keep having errors?”

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Post by emsign »

great_wubwub wrote: post #43
hootz wrote: post #30

Then at the end, "Use AI to make things clearer". NO! STOP USING AI AND JUST TALK!

I have a coworker whose first language isn't English. She uses AI to polish up her writing, particularly long documents. She puts a ton of effort into making sure that it still reads well. Because of this effort her writing is strong and precise. Before AI she made all the obvious mistakes you'd expect from someone who's not a native English speaker. It's very hard to tell that she used AI because she puts so much ef…

You do realize that when you have to find a special use case to defend something you are really giving an argument AGAINST casual widespread use of it.

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Post by nikeee »

When I'm encountering some WoT like that, I'd like to have a button like "view source", but for "view prompt".

Most ai generated messages or docs are unnecessarily verbose and just reading the prompt would suffice. I don't really get why some people seem to think that it's somehow better to have their bullet point prompt as a huge text.

It just wastes my time. And probably only makes it look like it took more effort than it actually did (it may be the exact opposite).

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