Chat GPT is great. If you are a teacher with writer’s block you can ask for something like “End of year comment for student who needs to have more confidence in their work and who asks good questions” and it will spit out *paragraphs* of the most bland, corporate, superlative content-free, schlock you’ve ever seen. This will make you so angry that you’ll remember how to write.
It’s all “actionable” this and “out of the box” that … omg just poke both my eyes out right now.
The cognitive prosthesis we didn't knew we needed 😅
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Ha! That's kind of how I felt about MidJourney.
"No. Not like that, you idiot machine!"
Suddenly it turns out, I did know what I wanted. 
@enmodo @futurebird Old people who didn't graduate high school keep promising that the most-educated generation in history will be the stupidest ever. Those kids have been programming C++ since grade school and prank each other with deep fakes, but you never learned to program a VCR and keep losing money to pyramid schemes and Nigerian prince scams.
Generation Dunning–Kruger is collecting pensions.
This just in: old man shouts at clouds
@enmodo @futurebird I'm not defending ChatGPT, it's a shitshow and indefensible.
I'm saying that claims of idiocracy have been proven wrong every single time they've been stated going at least as far back as the 1920s (probably even longer), so why would it be correct this time?
And every time it's by uninformed older people who don't know what they don't know
@GeorgeWL @futurebird I guess I should have made the sarcasm more obvious.
The problem is the road to idiocracy is a long and winding one paved by indifference and incredulity. You don't get to the destination overnight.
And you may not ever get there without some global catastrophy and even then the outcome may just be 99% of the population dies within the first year but that year may feel like idiocracy until most of the rest die too leaving only those with seasoned survival skills.
@GeorgeWL @futurebird that said I think there's already good evidence that an increasing number of people are living in their own Idiocracy bubbles only sustained by Amazon / WalMart, and mindless labor or handouts. Take away either one and they are SOL. May not quite be Brawndo and Circuses but getting pretty close.
Fortunately for them their bubbles can be burst in case of emergency. For the time being at least.
@victorgijsbers 😀 nahhh not what I mean - *my* version would reply with "Sure! Here's the full collection of Shakespeare's sonnets, randomly mixed with ASM code and lyrics from Whitehouse and Cannibal Corpse"
I *did* say "useful", didn't I?
@pgcd That could actually be an interesting read. 🤔
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
(The blackened city calls out)
Is lust in action; and till action lust
(Enter the temple of sin)
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
(You must enter the temple of sin)
@futurebird “This will make you so angry that you’ll remember how to write.”
Pure gold.
Trained on LinkedIn bios and job listings as well then :)
Yeah that's one way to get fired fast.
Very under-appreciated the value that Internet technologies bring specifically in terms of negativity-fueled motivation and contemptuous energy. I can't tell you how much work I've gotten done seconds after seeing something online that I thought was of terrible quality.
Of course!
I think it would be wise to do some studies on the progress children make learning to write with their own voice — depending on if they use such tools or not.
Though this feels a lot like the “calculators in the math classroom” debate all over again and it will probably produce similarly murky and still bickered over results.
@queenofnewyork @Talen_Lee @futurebird @zorangrbic To me the difference is whether there's "grunt work" where it's clear what you need to do, but the actual work is unique to the task you're doing and requires attention to detail that would be just as costly if you were reviewing the output of LLMs...
...if there's "grunt work" that is repeating the same pattern over and over in N different places, where the actual work is just writing the parameters that differ between instantiations.
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