Someone telling you about a conversation they had with ChatGPT is the new telling someone about your dream last night (which sucks because I’ve had a lot of conversations I wanna share lol).
It's rude to show AI output to people
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#32The author was thinking "boring and uninteresting" but settled on the word "rude." No, it's not rude. Emailing your co-workers provactive political memes or telling someone to die in a fire is rude. Using ChatGPT to write and being obvious about it marks you as an uninteresting person who may not know what they are talking about.
On the other hand, emailing your prompt and the result you got can be instructive to others learning how to use LLMs (aren't we all?) We may learn effective prompt techniques or decide to switch to that LLM because of the quality of the answer.
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#33I can buy into this. I always thought it was rude or at least insulting when Hollywood robotically creates slop movies. As in, of course they can do it, but damn is it insulting. There really are two types of people in the world: a) Quantity > Quality if it prints $$$. or b) Quality > Quantity if it feels like the right thing to do. Witnessing type A at scale is a first-class ticket into misanthropy.
less than perfect writing is a signal that your human. At least for now.
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#34I recently had a non-technical person contest my opinion on a subtle technical issue with ChatGPT screenshots (free tier o4) attached in their email. The LLM wasn't even wrong, just that it had the answer wrapped in customary platitudes to the user and they are not equipped to understand the actual answer of the model.
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#35There's another level altogether when the other party pretends it's not AI-generated at all.
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#36The problem here is that I’ve been accused multiple times of using LLMs to write slop when it was genuinely written by myself.
So I apologized and began actually using LLMs while making sure the prompt included style guides and rules to avoid the tell tale signs of AI. Then some of these geniuses thanked me for being more genuine in my response.
A lot of this stuff is delusional. You only find it rude because you’re aware it’s written by AI. It’s the awareness itself that triggers it. In reality you can’t tell the difference.
This post, for example.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Wow. What a good giveaway. I wonder what others there are. I occasionally use bullet points, emdashes (unicode, single, and double hyphens) and words like "delve". I hate it think these are the new heuristics. I think AI is a useful tool (especially image and video models), but I've already had folks (on HN [1]!) call out my fully artisanal comments as LLM-generated. It's almost as annoying as getting low-effort LLM…
Use two dashes instead of an actual em dash. ChatGPT, at least, cannot do the same--it just can't.
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#38While I understand this sentiment, some people simply suck at writing nice emails or have a major communication issue. It’s also not bad to run your important emails through multiple edits via AI.
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#39>> "I asked ChatGPT and this is what it said: ".
> Whoa, let me stop you right here buddy, what you're doing here is extremely, horribly rude.
How is it any different from "I read book and it said that..."? Or "Book has the following quote about that:"?
I definitely want to know where people are getting their info. It helps me understand how trustworthy it might be. It's not rude, it's providing proper context.
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#40Someone telling you about a conversation they had with ChatGPT is the new telling someone about your dream last night (which sucks because I’ve had a lot of conversations I wanna share lol).
Eh. It's more like I asked my drunk uncle, and he sounded really confident when he told me X.