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Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by jimbokun »

azath92 wrote: post #452
jvanderbot wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I hate about this whole thing, is that there are many reasons someone might reach out to a coworker with questions. Not all require the knowledge in fancy markdown with emojis. Maybe they want to show respect to a person by asking their opinion before proceeding with a change Maybe they want to share context and make that person aware of what they're thinking without being so obvious Maybe they need _that person…

In a small team, or an aware team, where AI is being used all the time and we are figuring out the best way to do it, i often just preface my messages with - "from my ai to yours" where ive pointed my ai at some relevant context, and asked it to transform it for other ai context that a coworker needs - "my thoughts prettied by AI" where i just polished up my own words, often for outside coms, but indicating that i wr…

It’s in the same spirit of citing your sources in academic writing.

Indicating what you’re taking from a prior source and which parts are your individual contributions.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by qwertox »

p2detar wrote: post #17

> I worked as a developer at a company. I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a ChatGPT screenshot with the answer. I replied that it had nothing to do with my question and everything there was wrong. A minute later he sent me another ChatGPT screenshot. He didn’t even read the AI’s answer. That's just rude and borderline psychotic behavior. It's still a bit better at my workplace bu…

Maybe he was trying to say "look, when I can look this up, it means that you can too, i won't put any effort into it, because i pay you, but if i can use AI, so can you."

Maybe that was his rationale, "to educate" by example.

Absolutely nuts to treat employees this way, sending ChatGPT chats around.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by MetaWhirledPeas »

The business owner was just being rude.

For the GitHub discussion, I don't know how you asked the question, but it would be wise to include in your question what sources you have already consulted, so that they don't also consult the same sources. This is true whether we're talking about AI or Encyclopedia Britannica or microfilm.

Asking questions well is a useful skill that is not at all new.

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ramon156 wrote: post #203
p2detar wrote: post #17

> I worked as a developer at a company. I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a ChatGPT screenshot with the answer. I replied that it had nothing to do with my question and everything there was wrong. A minute later he sent me another ChatGPT screenshot. He didn’t even read the AI’s answer. That's just rude and borderline psychotic behavior. It's still a bit better at my workplace bu…

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Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by dist-epoch »

volkl48 wrote: post #531
dist-epoch wrote: post #274

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Usually when people are asking questions it isn't that they don't know how to find a possible solution at all, it's that they don't feel they know enough to evaluate the correctness of the solutions they may find, and they think you do. ------ Google will turn up plenty of sites with solutions to problems that are a bad way of going about it, and some that are actively detrimental/will make your problem worse - but s…

There is a difference between "how do I do X" and "I tried googling/asking GPT and I don't know which answer from A/B/C to pick"

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by tommy0103 »

It's so important now to go out and actually connect with people — to meet, to talk, not just stare at a screen. Ten years ago, we used to say: don't just message the person living in your phone, the one we called an "online friend."

But ten years later, the one on the other side of the screen isn't even a person anymore.

And that's the sad truth, isn't it? The way we relate to new technology is always one step behind the technology itself.

Hell, even the replies to this post might not have been written by a human.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by bigfishrunning »

mrweasel wrote: post #473
onemoresoop wrote: post #286

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Maybe they don’t wanna take responsibility for that answer?

In our case we're completely allowed to use AI, but if you do, you carry the responsibility for it's output (not in a legal sense obviously). So if your LLM says "Sure, go ahead and run that code" and it deletes the production database, that's your fault, just as much as if you reviewed it manually and said the same thing.

> you carry the responsibility for it's output (not in a legal sense obviously)

why not in a legal sense? If someone asks me what cleaning supplies are safe to mix, and i just ask some chatbot, don't vet the output, copy the response, and they end up poisoning themselves, am I not responsible?

If I'm a lawyer, and pass unvetted AI legal advice to my client, and they go to jail, should i keep my license?

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by perarneng »

torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

Exactly, people want to talk to AI when they choose to, as a tool, but not reaching out to other human beings. There is no easy way of solving this sadly

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Post by bauldursdev »

ghostpepper wrote: post #557
bauldursdev wrote: post #381

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Agree wholeheartedly. I have actually started introducing small idiosyncrasies into my text to make it clear that my words come from me and not a bot.

would it blow your mind if I told you there are already idiosyncrasies in the way you write? not you specifically; everyone has them

I know, I could've worded my comment clearer. I meant that I specifically introduce them in a way to make it obvious my text was written by me.
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