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Steven Op de beeck Jan 13, 2023

“Mansplaining as a service.” Spot on.

Quoting @andrewfeeney: https://phpc.social/@andrewfeeney/109466122845775778

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@[email protected] Christine Lemmer-Webber (@[email protected]) described ChatGPT as Mansplaining As A Service, and honestly I can’t think of a better description. A service that instantly generates vaguely plausible sounding yet totally fabricated and baseless lectures in an instant with unflagging confidence in its own correctness on any topic, without concern, regard or even awareness of the level of expertise of its audience.

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Johann-Tobias Schäg Jan 13, 2023

@stevenodb @andrewfeeney

Just like in human communication one is responsible to let the other party know ones level of expertise.
If one appends "Explain like i am five.", "Explain like i took a course on that in university but i need an refresher" or something similar one can tune the kind of response.

Prompt tuning is a thing and it is frankly annoying that the same crowd both dismisses results achieved by prompt tuning, that prompt tuning is a skill and complain

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Johann-Tobias Schäg Jan 13, 2023

@stevenodb @andrewfeeney about defects in outputs which could be eliminated by some prompt tuning.
Yes by prompt tuning one injects oneself into the process. This feedback loop is nothing novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_art

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Johann-Tobias Schäg

@stevenodb @andrewfeeney But then again non of the AI maximalists describe it as:
You can spend 2 hours tweaking the resulting images, seeds and the prompt to democratize the commissioning of images or have 10 different conversations about the same thing where you strategically walk down different paths of conversation to get a better approximation to debias the conversation.
... Which would be the honest description