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Re: Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

#11
* AI Response. Not prompt.

I was expecting him to read a proper prompt. The prompt would be what he would tell the AI system.

“You are a speech writer, an expert on XYZ… your task is to write ABC…”

It’s not too bad, at least he is using ai. And agree we can replace many of them with AI. At least we will have the opportunity to talk to the ai directly about concerns.

Re: Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

#13
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To be technical, what he read wasn't prompt, it's part of the AI's response to the prompt. But yes, it's a giant tell that politician used AI to write his speech, and he didn't thoroughly edit the response when preparing the final draft.

No, that politician trusted some poorly paid staff to write a boring procedural speech while he was doing something (hopefully more useful).

The staff used an LLM and did not bother to check (or got their check wrong.)

One of them is guilty, the other one is responsible, the conséquence should be in proportion to the gravity.

Re: Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

#15

Why exactly is that bad?

It's a red flag. Even if they agree and understand whatever they copied from chatgpt, they were too lazy to clean up its output. Are they also too lazy to read the news or does chatgpt summarize their articles too? AI people are like emperors without clothes. Totally embarrassing to witness.

This is bad because it's only getting harder to trust people. This is not someone I would want representing me. Although I'm not thrilled about any of my representatives anyway.

Re: Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

#16

* AI Response. Not prompt. I was expecting him to read a proper prompt. The prompt would be what he would tell the AI system. “You are a speech writer, an expert on XYZ… your task is to write ABC…” It’s not too bad, at least he is using ai. And agree we can replace many of them with AI. At least we will have the opportunity to talk to the ai directly about concerns.

> It’s not too bad, at least he is using ai.

What is not too bad about him using "AI", exactly?

Re: Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

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post #8

politicians are one of the easiest jobs to replace with AI

I really hope you’re joking, but it’s hard to tell on here!

Indeed. Manual dexterity on a bipedal robot is still in its infancy compared to LLMs. We'll need another breakthrough or two before we have robots that can play golf and schmooze with other rich robots all day.

Re: Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

#20

Why exactly is that bad?

You're absolutely right. Sure, I'll help you write a Hacker News comment explaining why politicians should have functional mental faculties and a coherent understanding of what they do during the course of their jobs and how their actions affect their constituents.
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