These comments may seem silly at a glance, like joking about using WebMD instead of going to the doctor. But if this is the kind of unhealthy over-reliance on AI that OpenAI considers “cool,” we should all be worried.
Altman: but…
: WALLOne of the libs I like to watch recently used it for the first time and they are “frightened and awed” that chatGPT could provide a summary of their social media accounts. Like, this thing just made a list of things they’ve talked about and then turned that list into a paragraph of text and this person is freaking out. I like to watch this particular lib because they give me a good barometer for how “normies” behave around stuff. And based on this, I think there’ll be a dozen major AI worshipping religions springing up in the US by the end of the decade.
Like a month ago I overheard one genz/alpha tell another that he was nervous about a presentation or something so he asked chatgpt for help. Chatgpt told him to only worry about doing the best he can and to not worry about being judged by the others in the room. He went on at length about how this completely changed his worldview and that he had been too focused on other people’s approval because all he cares about is being successful and had never considered just not caring what people think of him.
This was the most “holy fuck humanity is cooked” I’ve ever felt.
A lot of young people aren’t really told to not worry about these things, and it’s pretty normal for young people to change their “entire worldview” from the dumbest sources. The Gen X/Boomer equivalent was doing the same thing with a fortune cookie.
Glad I was born at the perfect time have my philosophical awakening the way god intended, by doing hallucinogens in the desert.
Psilocybins would never lie to me
infant human hugging a vaguely anthropomorphoid wire cage with a bottle mounted on it dot jpeg
THEY’RE CHOOSING THE WIRE MOTHER DAMNIT
jesus fucking christ
Sam Altman’s net worth depends on people using the Lying Butlerian Environment Destroyer.
no. they are toys at best and can quickly get boring
I use it for a lot of stuff that is productive.
- prototype code
- write boiler plate code for me
- correct my abhorrent French to pass as barely human in my own society
- prototype things i want to be custom made by an artisan
- tune recipes and find variation for recipes I like but grew bored off
- find counter arguments to ideas I have to start an iteration loop.
The tool has a lot of real life, productive and helpful use case, you just need to learn how to use it properly for it to be useful, like any tool I guess.
- prototype things i want to be custom made by an artisan
- tune recipes and find variation for recipes I like but grew bored off
- find counter arguments to ideas I have to start an iteration loop.
I simply use my brain for these things.
Pfft, you stupid luddite, don’t you know that burning down the amazon so a shitty algorithm can do your thinking for you is the future?
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prototype code write boiler plate code for meDoes it not just provide a garbled mess that doesn’t even function every time you try though? Every time I’ve tried to generate code with it, it has never worked, and fixing the errors is more time consuming than just writing the code myself.
Edit: Now why on earth did it do that? It should’ve just quoted.
Nope. It works very fine most of the time. You need to be clear what you ask for and not ask for too much at a time. You say : do a script that does a small part, test it then add a new part and so on.
I mostly do this while doing another task, using my free time during compile and server deploy time to advance on my next stuff.
You can’t just ask him to do full feature and hope it works properly, that’s a recipe for disaster.
You have to think like it like working with a junior dev.
Fuck chatGPT. If you have the hardware for it, you can locally run AI models on your device like Mistral or Qwen which are open source. Mistral is under apache license.
Most resources on this are on reddit in r/LocalLLaMA
It’s wonderful. I can iterate on menial bullshit in code like manifest lists completely offline without data leaks.
it’s better if you have it working iteratively. The newer command line tools allow it to compile the code and fix errors itself. There are also some techniques you can use so it does a better job of keeping track of what it’s doing. Generally they still suck at large existing codebases but they’re pretty good if you are doing something greenfield like a prototype or using the existing project as a dependency rather than trying to modify the existing project.
I’ll have to have a look into that. If nothing else, it has been good at collecting my thoughts and giving me a clear idea of how not to do things.
It has some good suggestions at time also. Don’t just discount it “because”.
You need to use your critical thinking skill with this as much as everywhere else.
So I’ve tried it, don’t think it is worthwhile, and don’t think it is ultimately a good use of humanity’s resources, and you’re telling me that I’m not “critically thinking” because I’m not a hardcore true believer?
Jesus, what the fuck happened to Lemmygrad since I left? I knew it was pushing in the direction of AI stuff, but I didn’t think it would get so full of smug techbro bullshit so soon.
the thing i’ve found that works best is telling it to keep a scratchpad of what it’s doing and what it’s learned and a few other things. You have to tell it explicitly it has to keep it updated otherwise it’ll neglect the scratchpad and it’ll be a disaster when you go to recover from it forgetting everything.
You can ask it to make a memory dump in text form also.
Chatgtp also has a memory feature… It only gets full easily!
you just need to learn how to use it properly
Doesn’t this apply to the original skills and cases you’re using slopgpt to supplement? Train those rather than relying on a hallucination prone plagiarism machine yknow?
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what’s your understanding of why the luddites were upset? from the way you throw it around like a slur it seems like you only know the capitalist smears. I’d suggest you read up on the political economy of the historical situation they were in— but that’s hard and takes effort, so maybe ask the distilled hegemonic culture lying bot that you trust so much
Huuuuuh
You fear a new tool, making you a ludite. That’s all!
I seem to have hit a nerve!
Take care!
not many people know this, but the ludites were really into quaaludes which is how they got their name
luddite lmao, eat my ass punk
I have and continue to work in CS, try not blindly labeling anyone who doesn’t agree with wholehearted acceptance of your hallucination machines as a luddite - now how about you learn to use your brain instead of this garbage tech that’s actively contributing to the enshittification of all human information, yeah?
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tune recipes and find variation for recipes I like but grew bored off
enjoy eating poison
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make ingredient dice or something then, why use an llm for something you could do with a random number generator or arbitrarily scrolling through cooking youtube?
