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This is terrifying: a marketer pinged me for quote permission — common for a journalist. Only I didn’t recognize the text as something I’d ever said. Pumping it into Google returned nothing.I asked where he got it: ChatGPT. AI fabricated a quote and attributed it to me. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/FbkKoDNwXH— Chris Paukert (@CPAutoScribe) May 4, 2023

This is going to wreck society even more.

Please, for the love of Marx, do not take ChatGPT at its word on anything. It has no intelligence. No ability to sort the truth from fiction. It is just a very advanced chat bot that knows how to string words together in a sentence and paragraph.

DO NOT BELIEVE IT. IT DOES NOT CITE SOURCES.

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I feel like my HS English/Science teacher begging kids to not use Wikipedia, right now.

But even Wikipedia is better than ChatGPT because. Wikipedia. Cites. Sources.

  • mkultrawide [any]
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    2 years ago

    All of these people at my job are talking about using ChatGPT to write code or formulas and all I can think is "Great, can't wait for you to run to me to fix your work when it breaks."

    • Comp4 [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Im not a coder but as a humble office drone I do use it to write emails and it is useful for that since I usually only need to adjust 1-2 things.

        • Comp4 [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          I basically use it to answer requests. Really nothing wild. Ofc I could do it by hand but it safes me some time that I then can use to browse the internet at work. I can understand being skeptical using it for code but for simple formal writing its useful. I also find it a bit ehhh if you want to use it in a creative manner since you have to redo a lot.