"ChatGPT said this" Is Lazy
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Re: "ChatGPT said this" Is Lazy
#2I've come down pretty hard on friends who, when I ask for advice about something, come back with a ChatGPT snippet (mostly D&D-related, not work-related).
I know ChatGPT exists. I could have fucking copied-and-pasted my question myself. I'm not asking you to be the interface between me and it. I'm asking you, what you think, what your thoughts and opinions are.
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#3I’ve noticed this trend in comments across the internet. Someone will ask or say something, the someone else will reply with “I asked ChatGPT and it says…” or “According to AI…”
ChatGPT is free and available to everyone, and so are a dozen other LLMs. If the person making the comment wanted to know what ChatGPT had to say, they could just ask it themselves. I guess people feel like they’re being helpful, but I just don’t get it.
Though with that said, I’m happy when they at least say it’s from an LLM. At least then I know I can ignore It. Worse is replying as if it’s their own answer, but really it’s just copy pasted from an LLM. Those are more insidious.
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#4This is an honest question. Did you try pasting your PR and the ChatGPT feedback into Claude and asking it for an analysis of the code and feedback?
Re: "ChatGPT said this" Is Lazy
#5This is an honest question. Did you try pasting your PR and the ChatGPT feedback into Claude and asking it for an analysis of the code and feedback?
Careful with this idea, I had someone take a thread we were engaged in and feed it to an LLM, asking it to confirm his feelings about the conversation, only to post it back to the group thread. It was used to attack me personally in a public space.
Fortunately
1. The person was transparent about it, even posting a link to the chat session
2. They had to follow on prompt to really engage the sycophancy
3. The forum admins stepped in to speak to this individual even before I was aware of it
I actually did what you suggested, fed everything back into another LLM, but did so with various prompts to test things out. The responses where... interesting, the positive prompt did return something quite good. A (paraphrased) quote from it
"LLMs are a powerful rhetorical tool. Bringing one to a online discussion is like bringing a gun to a knife fight."
That being said, how you prompt will get you wildly different responses from the same (other) inputs. I was able to get it to sycophant my (not actually) hurt feelings.
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#6I’ve noticed this trend in comments across the internet. Someone will ask or say something, the someone else will reply with “I asked ChatGPT and it says…” or “According to AI…” ChatGPT is free and available to everyone, and so are a dozen other LLMs. If the person making the comment wanted to know what ChatGPT had to say, they could just ask it themselves. I guess people feel like they’re being helpful, but I just d…
The irony is that the disclosure of “I asked ChatGPT and it says…” is done as a courtesy to let the reader be informed. Given the increasing backlash against that disclosure, people will just stop disclosing which is worse for everyone.
The only workaround is to just text as-is and call it out when it's wrong/bad, AI-generated or otherwise, as we've done before 2023.
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#7I’ve noticed this trend in comments across the internet. Someone will ask or say something, the someone else will reply with “I asked ChatGPT and it says…” or “According to AI…” ChatGPT is free and available to everyone, and so are a dozen other LLMs. If the person making the comment wanted to know what ChatGPT had to say, they could just ask it themselves. I guess people feel like they’re being helpful, but I just d…
The irony is that the disclosure of “I asked ChatGPT and it says…” is done as a courtesy to let the reader be informed. Given the increasing backlash against that disclosure, people will just stop disclosing which is worse for everyone. The only workaround is to just text as-is and call it out when it's wrong/bad, AI-generated or otherwise, as we've done before 2023.
That’s true. Unfortunately the ideal takeaway from that sentiment should be “don’t reply with copy pasted LLM answers”, but I know that what you’re saying will happen instead.
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#8This is an honest question. Did you try pasting your PR and the ChatGPT feedback into Claude and asking it for an analysis of the code and feedback?
Does that particularly matter in the context of this post? Either way, it sounds like OP was handed homework by the responder, and farming that out to yet another LLM seems kind of pointless, when OP could just ask the LLM for its opinion directly.
Re: "ChatGPT said this" Is Lazy
#9This is an honest question. Did you try pasting your PR and the ChatGPT feedback into Claude and asking it for an analysis of the code and feedback?
Does that particularly matter in the context of this post? Either way, it sounds like OP was handed homework by the responder, and farming that out to yet another LLM seems kind of pointless, when OP could just ask the LLM for its opinion directly.
While LLM code feedback might be wordy and dubious, I have personally found that asking Claude to review a PR and related feedback to provide some value. From my perspective anyways, Claude seems able to cut through the BS and say if a recommendation is worth the squeeze or in what contexts the feedback has merit or is just pedantic. Of course, your mileage my vary as they say.
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#10I’ve noticed this trend in comments across the internet. Someone will ask or say something, the someone else will reply with “I asked ChatGPT and it says…” or “According to AI…” ChatGPT is free and available to everyone, and so are a dozen other LLMs. If the person making the comment wanted to know what ChatGPT had to say, they could just ask it themselves. I guess people feel like they’re being helpful, but I just d…
Isn't it the modern equivalent of "let me Google that for you"?
My experience is that the vast majority of people do 0 research (AI assisted or not) before asking questions online. Questions that could have usually been answered in a few seconds if they had tried.
If someone preface a question by saying they've done their research but would like validation, then yes it's in incredibly poor taste.