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ChatGPT is laying you off

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Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#21
In the abstract, bad news should be delivered candidly and succinctly. Giving people some reasoning might help, but it might not, and it shouldn't be the lead, the bare bad news is the lead.

Adding fluff, euphemisms, and indirection is disrespectful to the people affected.

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still 100x better than the average person!

I read the Wikipedia article about Scansion and I still don't understand it.

I asked chatgpt to explain the comment:

The comment is referring to GPT's ability to scan and analyze the meter or rhythm of poetry. Scansion is the process of analyzing the poetic meter by marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line.

The comment implies that there were two instances where GPT failed to accurately analyze the meter of two different poems in a single day. This may suggest that GPT is not proficient in scanning poetry or that it may not be the best tool for analyzing the meter of poetic works.

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still 100x better than the average person!

I read the Wikipedia article about Scansion and I still don't understand it.

tl;dr: when you read Shakespeare plays out loud, there's a rhythm and meter to it. The process for creating that is called scansion.

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#27
The first version is way better than most actual layoff announcements - it focuses on the subject and gives relevant information. Many actual companies don't have the balls to be direct - they don't use the word layoff, they put some vague title about change or "refocusing" and the talk about a bunch irrelevant crap in an attempt to be positive. I'm still not over Satya Nadella ending Microsoft's layoff announcement with "it's showtime for Microsoft".

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#28
"They knew that their lives were about to change in ways they couldn't yet imagine. But they also knew that they would face this challenge with the same determination and strength that had made them successful in their roles."

That exact sentance structure/motif shows up in just about all fictional chatgpt outputs. I've played with fiction a lot in chatgpt, and it's so annoying.

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#29

The most interesting part of this is that ChatGPT can create content with more "whimsy" and "humanity" than many tech leaders. IMO The purpose of such announcements is to maintain the leadership (willing followership) role by reconnecting with followers with a hard-to-fake heart-to-heart. Without this, the warmth is gone. Followership becomes cold and is based primarily on health insurance, salary, visa, greencard, e…

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Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#30
The literary ones are pretty bad. Shakespeare is not even remotely Shakespearean. I think Suess would be hard for current models because I don't think they can invent nonsense words?

I would have liked to see the KJV.

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