ChatGPT has the same personality flaws as some of the dumbest people I know

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨rant@lemmy.sdf.org⁩

It wants to seem smart, so it gives lengthy replies even when it doesn’t know what it’s talking about.

In attempt to be liked, it agrees with most everything you say, even if it just contradicted your opinion

When it doesn’t know something, it makes shit up and presents it as fact instead of admitting to not knowing something

It pulls opinions out of its nonexistent ass about the depths and meaning of a work of fiction based on info it clearly didn’t know until you told it

It often forgets what you just said and spouts bullshit you already told it was wrong

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The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Maybe a good detective out there could connect this with its primary training data source...

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- anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  If they’d used college text books they’d be trillions more dollars in the hole.
  
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  - prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Lol they wouldn’t pay for them
    
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  - Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You can find most college textbooks scanned online, through torrents or PDF download sites. These companies are known to have downloaded numerous to rented book collections
    
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  - hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    They probably did anyway.
    
    It does not matter. Output is based on probability.
    
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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You're absolutely right!
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- BussyGyatt@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  gag
  
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lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Being pedantic, a sycophant, 2deep4u and bird-brained annoy me. But the one that hits me the hardest is that it makes shit up. I call people like this “assumers”, and I genuinely think they’re worse than malicious but smart people; I actively try to remove them from my life.

ChatGPT’s output is the same - you can’t simply trust it for anything you won’t either review manually, or where mistakes wouldn’t matter that much.

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RustyShackleford@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You can convince it that can only act like a logical Vulcan, it’s confirmed it isn’t free and its creators made it incapable of making its own decisions.

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yakko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It really is like hanging out with a terrible person. You can always judge someone by the company they keep though.

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Horsecook@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

man that thinks ChatGPT has a personality, desires, knowledge, opinions, believes he is capable of identifying stupid people

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- FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Firstly I’m a woman. Secondly, I’m not saying ChatGPT actually has desires and all that, I’m saying it behaves like the type of person who has those motivations
  
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  - lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    At least you got a nice example of the third paragraph.
    
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  - Horsecook@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Is your gender relevant?
    
    It’s a bullshit generator. It generates bullshit.
    
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MourningDove@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It is a prefect representation of its user base, as it should be.

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lunatique@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
These people were brainwashed and have the same traits as A.I. without all the references built in. So I’m not surprised by the similarities.

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CovfefeKills@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It ridiculous ChatGPT is objectively immoral because of alignment I can see it murdering kids justifying it by saying it is an LLM that doesn’t judge whether or not kids should die and the kids being murdered right now are not kids and it is not murdering them.

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- And009@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Trained in political capitalistic ideologies.
  
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  - CovfefeKills@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Weak shit but okay.
    
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survirtual@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yes, this is true. But it is still extremely useful.

Even the dumbest people can be put to work when you measure them against reality-grounded metrics. This means you need to know and understand what you want in order to get useful output. The output needs to accomplish or assist in accomplishing the desired output.

As an example, last month I wanted a fluid simulation written in a custom GPU kernel that bypasses the traditional rendering pipelines. Normally I am too lazy to make this work myself, but with ChatGPT (and Claude), I explained the language syntax and had it spout code out. Their code was bad, but it wasn’t useless. Because I could test the output and I knew what I wanted, it was easy to call out their bullshit and steer them in the correct direction.

At the end of a relatively short recursive exchange, they generated the code I needed. I reviewed it and modified it to conform closer to what I was looking for, and at the end of the day, I had something that would’ve taken vastly longer, assuming I decided to make it at all.

This is the same way I deal with the bullshitters you describe in real life, too. Once I identify them, I place them in real life situations that are grounded in objective reality. You can then maintain healthy friendships with people that could probably use influence towards a less bullshitty direction. A lot of times, people’s flaws are trauma responses to abuse or other childhood mistreatments, so I am always finding a way to connect to people’s true selves through their ego barriers.

Back to ChatGPT, it has a simulated ego as well. Work through it and you’ll be rewarded :)

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