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Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by anonym29 »

king_geedorah wrote: post #19
anonym29 wrote: post #4

>you just proved that there's no difference between asking you or asking the AI. Ding ding ding, we have a winner! Please do not ask me questions that I know nothing more about than AI. Wish there was something like LMGTFY but for AI. Turns out, there is such a thing as a stupid question after all: any question that a chatbot can answer that winds up wasting the time of a real human being because the asker was too la…

Typing “I don’t know” saves you more time than asking the AI and pasting the answer.

More keystrokes.

Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by jan_Inkepa »

I was on a forum that had one member who is very knowledable on the subject of the forum. But now he...only ever responds with "I asked gemini your question, here's the answer:", and it's a real shame. His online person has become totally hollowed out. (These aren't like newb question threads, these are conversational topic threads). I think he doesn't know or care how valuable his point of view was. -_- Some communities aren't affected by this AI stuff negatively at all, but I suspect some communities (and people) are getting gutted.

( When he starts his own threads, they're now of the form "I asked gemini question X and this several-page-long attached markdown file is how it answered" )

Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by Agreed3750 »

My parents come to me with questions about how to close a app on their iPad, and frankly I can not be asked to give them a walk through when I put chatgpt on their iPad for that reason.

And yes, my boss also uses AI and replying to their emails with this is frankly going to do nothing lol.

Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by zephen »

redhale wrote: post #18
anonym29 wrote: post #4

>you just proved that there's no difference between asking you or asking the AI. Ding ding ding, we have a winner! Please do not ask me questions that I know nothing more about than AI. Wish there was something like LMGTFY but for AI. Turns out, there is such a thing as a stupid question after all: any question that a chatbot can answer that winds up wasting the time of a real human being because the asker was too la…

Came here to say this -- humans are not always rational actors. I get asked questions all the time, which I have no special knowledge of, and which the asker could have easily Googled or ChatGPTed. And yet...

Humans. Can't live with 'em, can't serve 'em with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by tyleo »

soupspaces wrote: post #10
tyleo wrote: post #5

I don't know what's worse: 1. Asking a question which could be answered by an AI 2. Pasting an AI response to something If 1 is fair game, I'd say 2 is too.

2. Pasting disregards the reader

Yeah, asking questions you can find an answer to yourself also disregards the reader. It cuts both ways.

Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by kylemaxwell »

Agreed3750 wrote: post #23

My parents come to me with questions about how to close a app on their iPad, and frankly I can not be asked to give them a walk through when I put chatgpt on their iPad for that reason. And yes, my boss also uses AI and replying to their emails with this is frankly going to do nothing lol.

My dad (retired network engineer) has ChatGPT, but when he asks me about something, he's trying to keep a connection with me. I value those moments.

Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by tyleo »

As a meta note, I'm seeing more downvoted responses in this comment section for reasonable points of view on both sides than I've ever seen for any HN topic.

It's interesting that this is so polarizing.

Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by dymk »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #8
tyleo wrote: post #5

I don't know what's worse: 1. Asking a question which could be answered by an AI 2. Pasting an AI response to something If 1 is fair game, I'd say 2 is too.

No. 1 has been around since the dawn of time. Remember the saying, there are no stupid questions. Asking is how people learn, including learning how to ask good questions. #2 is just rude because everyone has access to the same AIs. You’re not doing anyone a favor or being helpful - if they wanted to ask AI, they would have. And what do you learn from an AI response?

Of course there are stupid questions. Just look at Stack Overflow, it's full of them. The better approach is "Invest as much time answering a question as the other party spent thinking about how to formulate it".

Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by johnfn »

Funniest thing about this is that I think it's ~all~ (edit) mostly LLM-generated (and Pangram agrees). I think the biggest tell these days is when the text is generated in a way that seems like it was intended to be funny, but the jokes never land.

> Well... Hate to disappoint

Hmm, the capital H is a grammatical error, so this is likely not entirely LLM-generated. But the hundreds of words explaining something as basic as how to read AI output doesn't seem likely to be written entirely by a human.

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