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How ChatGPT nearly destroyed my wedding day (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 month ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Here's a better idea - treat anything from ChatGPT as a lie, even if it offers sources

[–] ugo@feddit.it 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But the article author wasn’t interfacing with chatgpt, she was interfacing with a human paid to help with the things the article author did not know. The wedding planner was a supposed expert in this interaction, but instead simply sent back regurgitated chatgpt slop.

Is this the fault of the wedding planner? Yes. Is it the fault of chatgpt? Also yes.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

Scams are LLM's best use case.

They're not capable of actual intelligence or providing anything that would remotely mislead a subject matter expert. You're not going to convince a skilled software developer that your LLM slop is competent code.

But they're damn good at looking the part to convince people who don't know the subject that they're real.

[–] Pandemanium@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think we should require professionals to disclose whether or not they use AI.

Imagine you're an author and you pay an editor $3000 and all they do is run your manuscript through ChatGPT. One, they didn't provide any value because you could have done the same thing for free; and two, if they didn't disclose the use of AI, you wouldnt even know your novel had been fed into one and might be used by the AI for training.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago

I think we should require professionals not to use the thing currently termed AI.

Or if you think it's unreasonable to ask them not to contribute to a frivolous and destructive fad or don't think the environmental or social impacts are bad enough to implement a ban like this, at least maybe we should require professionals not to use LLMs for technical information