ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem.

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• Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Author: “write me a 4000 word article on why microplastics are bad

  ChatGPT: generates 4000 words of text explaining what micro means, what plastic means, and paraphrasing the “controversy” section of the Wikipedia page on microplastics

  Reader: “Summarise this article”

  GhatGPT: “Microplastics are bad”

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  • wicked@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And in reality: chatgpt.com/…/66f519a6-1348-8002-96eb-bb61fb25287…

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    • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      woah woah woah, lets have less of this looking at reality here. We all know generative AI is a fad that never works for anything and anyone using it is an idiot, we don’t need to have our prejudices challenged

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• Contentedness@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We can’t blame chatgpt for the change in headline writing over the last few years, though.

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  • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe we need LLMs to (first of all, we don’t need LLMs for this) rewrite headlines any time the word “slams” gets in there.

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    • underthesign@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Writers Slam The One Thing They Hate About AI.

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• fubarx@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My favorite tell is when a write-up starts with a verbose explanation of given knowledge on a subject. Yes, we all know what ‘World Wide Web’ and ‘Internal Combustion Engines’ are.

  Get to the f’ing point.

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  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is just basic “undergrad pads word count” strategy.

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  • Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No “we” all don’t. Ask anyone who works support how fucking stupid the general population is about shit they use daily. Let alone stuff they heard years/decades ago.

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    • spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ask anyone who works support how fucking stupid the general population

      They’re going to have a huge selection bias though - much of the “general population” will start elsewhere with things like documentation or brains.

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  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s become, by far, the most obvious tell for AI generated content for me. It’s just so damn unnatural.

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• woop_woop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Seriously, fuck off with the AI shit. At best it’s intelligent regex. And “intelligence” here means a specific thing.

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  • wicked@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Do you even know what regex is? Your neural network needs more training.

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    • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Do you even know what regex is?

      Do anyone? I know I just add more .+? until it works

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s a language model… Not a regexp. :)

    I agree it’s overhyped and I think we will have these models in everything from phones to cars, giving us voice commands and summary functions.

    It’s it going to become self aware anytime soon. :)

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  • jimmy90@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i prefer the upgraded autocomplete analogy but yeah

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What on Earth would that look like?

    Your statement doesn’t even make sense it’s like saying it’s not intelligent it’s just a magic pen. Eh?

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  • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    intelligent regex

    That would be much, much worse than what we actually have. Complex regex are positively Lovecraftian. You’d be chanting “Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn!” before you knew it.

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• WalnutLum@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Biggest issue I see is that these LLMs tend to repeat themselves after a surprisingly short number of times (unless they’re sufficiently bloated like ChatGPT).

  If you ask any of the users of Sillytavern or RisuAI they’ll tell you that these things have a long tail of not being very creative.

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• IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  👌👍

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