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[-] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 61 points 2 months ago

ChatGPT didn't nearly destroy her wedding, her lousy wedding planner did. Also whats she got against capital letters?

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 56 points 2 months ago

Yea yea guns don't kill people, bullet impacts kill people. Dishonesty and incompetence are nothing new, but you may note that the wedding planner's unfounded confidence in ChatGPT exacerbated the problem in a novel way. Why did the planner trust the bogus information about Vegas wedding officiants? Is someone maybe presenting these LLM bots as an appropriate tool for looking up such information?

[-] HedyL@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago

Yes, even some influential people at my employer have started to peddle the idea that only “old-fashioned” people are still using Google, while all the forward-thinking people are prompting an AI. For this reason alone, I think that negative examples like this one deserve a lot more attention.

[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 26 points 2 months ago

*What's

For the sin of making a grammar error in a post criticizing grammar you must now do ten push-ups.

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months ago

I can make a safe assumption before reading the article that ChatGPT didn't ruin the wedding, but rather somebody that was using ChatGPT ruined the wedding.

[-] ebu@awful.systems 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"blame the person, not the tools" doesn't work when the tools' marketing team is explicitly touting said tool as a panacea for all problems. on the micro scale, sure, the wedding planner is at fault, but if you zoom out even a tiny bit it's pretty obvious what enabled them to fuck up for as long and as hard as they did

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

what if the person in question is also a tool

[-] ebu@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

oh gods they're multiplying

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago

why would you say something so inane my god

[-] self@awful.systems 21 points 2 months ago

do you think they ever got round to reading the article, or were they spent after coming up with “hmmmm I bet chatgpt didn’t somehow prompt itself” as if that were a mystery that needed solving

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

I had to take a nap after my profound thoughts.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

wankery will do that to a man

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago

"ChatGPT is good, but only if no one in a position of authority uses it"

Cool.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

"This hammer can't plan a wedding. Hammers are useless."

[-] self@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

almost all of your posts are exactly this worthless and exhausting and that’s fucking incredible

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I get the feeling you're exactly the kind of person who shouldn't have a proompt, much less a hammer

[-] self@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

no absolutely, I shouldn’t ever “have a proompt”, whatever the fuck that means

the promptfondlers really aren’t alright now that public opinion’s against the horseshit tech they love

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

istg these people seem to roll "b-b-b-but <saltman|musk|sundar|....> gifted this technology to me personally, how could I possibly look this gift horse in the mouth" on the inside of their heads

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

(nevermind them doing the equivalent of rolling into someone else's lounge then stripping down and getting comfortable on the couch, without asking)

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

The worst kind of golem

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 23 points 2 months ago

"Comment whose upvotes all come from programming dot justworks dot dev dot infosec dot works" sure has become a genre of comment.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 21 points 2 months ago

Comments coming from .dev should default to comic sans.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago

holy shit this sounds like an amazing plugin

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

"I can safely bet that by 'all upvotes come from programming dot justworks dot dev dot infosec dot works' you actually mean 'a vast majority of upvotes come from these tech instances' even before reading your comment."

"Or in other words I correctly interpreted what you meant but apparently the way you said it is a problem because I prefer to blame users rather than peddlers."

[-] sue_me_please@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

Federating is a vector of disease

[-] Juice@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

How can you tell who up votes a comment?

[-] self@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

instance admins have a button for it

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As a fellow Interesting Wedding Haver, I have to give all the credit in the world to the author for handling this with grace instead of, say, becoming a terrorist. I would have been proud to own the "Tracy did nothing wrong" tshirt.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

Credit to her for making the best of a bad situation. "We almost couldn't get legally married, so we had to bring in Elvis to officiate the paperwork after the ceremony" is going to be a top-tier wedding story for every party going forward.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

good thing Elvis is everywhere

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

As long as music is alive, so is The King. A-thank you. Thank you very much.

[-] Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Yea yea words.

Trust but verify.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 28 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Pandemanium@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

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 2 months 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

[-] self@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

what does this have to do with the article

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