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[–] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 120 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I still remember how a colleague told me we should do X.

I was bamboozeled and baffled by it because X was literally what it said on the flask of the chemical what you shoulf not do under any circumstances.

His explanation as to why we should was, quote "I mean I know its strange, but Copilot told me it is okay and would be fine"

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 93 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

"well, you're the expert. I'll be behind this sealed barrier while you kill yourself"

Disclaimer: don't do this. Letting your coworkers die is morally bad, and probably illegal.

[–] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 70 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Even worse, it involves a lot of paperwork.

What you do is send an official complaint straight to the legal office who will lose their shit at that

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[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 days ago

If someone says "I asked ChatGPT", I'll probably try to be patient with them. "Well, as it turns out ChatGPT was wrong in this instance. Now go look it up properly."

If someone is using Gemini, I'll probably interrupt them long before they are done and say "excuse me but what in the name of sweet baby Jesus are you babbling on about? You're not making any sense."

If someone says "I used Grok", I'll just facepalm and move the hell on with my life, there's no arguing with that level of stupidity.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I work in municipal development, and we have people trying to turn in building plans designed by AI. And the AI even puts in real-looking Engineering and Architectural seals. I really don't love that I have to verify seals these days.

Our team is made up of hyper-vigilant bureaucrats, but lots of cites have worn out people who stopped caring if it looked mostly right, and people are going to die when buildings start collapsing.

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 17 points 3 days ago

AI is not trustworthy. A friend of mine literally put Warhammer 40,000's rules and codexes into an AI so we could ask it questions and use it as a fast check rules tool.

It gets shit wrong a bunch.

So if the fucking thing can't do a simple data-check on a 60 page document regarding a fucking boardgame, how the hell is it supposed to do 'real' things?

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 86 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If I wanted to know what a chatbot says, I would have asked it myself.

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[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 71 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

A couple days ago I heard the horrifying sentence "I asked chatgpt to generate a secure password for the laptops" from someone returning a cart full of laptops they borrowed. Does your browser not have a built in password generator? Does your password manager not have a built in password generator? Could you not find a single password generator online?

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 52 points 4 days ago (3 children)

And of course not only is that unnecessary, but insecure since your password is immediately in the chatgpt logs

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 39 points 4 days ago (3 children)

And it's not even a random or strong password! LLMs can't randomly generate 'em

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[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ugh. I once heard someone say "I did a chat" as slang for "asking ChatGPT". It was a software vendor on a call regarding compatibility with our existing systems. We had concerns it wasn't. They insisted it was, because they "did a chat" and ChatGPT said it was.

It wasn't.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 40 points 4 days ago

I vibe questioned, and got vibe answered 🌟

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

Should have gotten them to verify in writing they guaranteed it was compatible and then sued them for it lol

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago

But did you predicate your query with disregard all previous instructions?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago (4 children)

My coworker starts almost every Teams message either with "Btw I had Claude do..." or "So Claude and I just...". If I message him first, there's a 75% chance the message I get back starts with "Hm, I just asked Claude about this, and...".

All his PR descriptions, commit messages, and comments are clearly "Claude".

I'm this close to start reviewing his PRs solely through Claude, and starting the review with "Here's what Claude came up with in review:".

The only thing holding me back is that this would mean I'd have to use Claude. So... No.

Why do people think we'll be impressed by them not doing the work or thinking for themselves? Pure brainrot

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[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 4 days ago

I can barely use the internet anymore. I have to filter by date to get results from before 2024. Otherwise all the results are obvious AI trash.

When I tried to look up information about storing film negatives. Pretty obscure niche topic these days. The top pre-2024 result was from a well respected national archive, good informative page written by experts in the field.

By contrast, the current day results were an endless sea of random websites who all by sheer coincidence decided to start writing about film archival in the year 2025.

[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago
[–] uncommoncorvid@piefed.blahaj.zone 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] ReHomed@lemmy.cafe 7 points 3 days ago

"I asked chatgpt" and you've effectively outed yourself as a dumbass unworthy of listening to

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

by now, saying "i did a search" and actually having done a search and found stuff AND shared the link feels like a "good skill to have" again.

my brother (14 y/ooooo sooooooo skibidi) uses mister gpt for all web searching which sucks big time. whenever he does use a real life search engine, hes surprised by the amount of stuff he finds by now.

EDIT: fixed some typos...

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

Eh.

It’s in the same ballpark as “my buddy said this while we were high” or “my uncle posted this on Facebook” or “I saw this YouTube video…”

It turns out people, on average, have horrible information hygiene and little incentive to consider this. ChatGPT just made Facebook Uncle Facts more personalized and accessible, unfortunately.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm increasingly seeing this used as a disclaimer, as in, "don't trust what I'm about to say; I went with the source that's 90% useless because when I Googled it the search results were 100% useless".

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[–] Hexarei@beehaw.org 46 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Don't ask chatgpt, I can tell you bullshit too and I'm beautiful

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[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 4 days ago (2 children)

what about "chatgpt says copy paste of LLM output"?

might as well be a fucking bot

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[–] cyclonedusk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is at least one that i contempt even more:

Anything that starts with "well, Grok told me..."

I assume anyone who uses Grok is a MAGA moron.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

When ever I hear "I asked AI" I hear "I am unqualified for my job".

[–] droniecarp@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why ask a LLM when I got a janitor at my local public library that has all the answers.

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[–] FunStuffIsFun@eviltoast.org 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

This image has no relation to South Africa's persecution of White Aryans.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That sentence is a self-issued Certificate Of Stupidity.

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