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Charlie StrossHere's ChatGPT masterfully channeling the spirit of the Bastard Operator From Hell:
Larry@cstross
OH dear. They forgot the sudo.
Dickenhobelix
europlus 
jwc@cstross so if I ask it how to build an ethernet tester, will it show me how to wire a 220 mains plug to an RJ 45?
@jwc Yup! (Because the input text corpus for these large LLMs is as likely to include jokes and misinformation as truthiness.)
Resuna@cstross @jwc Even if it doesn't, it has no idea of what's real or not. Contradictory sentences separated by similar text will have it jumping from one to the other.
I did a test asking it questions about something that there's probably only one text on in the entire web... an open source package I maintain on github. It was just as likely to recommend deprecated interfaces as preferred, and claim the new preferred interface is deprecated, as the opposite.
number137@cstross @jwc guardrails seem quite limited to specific contexts.
Out of fun, I tried to ask the LLM how to DIY enrich Uranium and breed Plutonium - and got harshly rebuffed.
Modifying the question slightly and asking about Thorium breeding instead and the network was much more open...
Out of fun, I tried to ask the LLM how to DIY enrich Uranium and breed Plutonium - and got harshly rebuffed.
Modifying the question slightly and asking about Thorium breeding instead and the network was much more open...
sbi@cstross @jwc To put it more simple: ChatGPT doesn't understand what it's saying and so, despite all the marketing talk, is *not* at all intelligent.
Any parrot can (more or less) correctly repeat stuff in a (more or less) correct context without any understanding of what it's saying, just repeating noises it had heard in similar contexts.
And that's my answer when I'm asked what I think about this new AI stuff: it's all just sophisticated parrots.
Jernej Simončič �
Max Kaehn@cstross Like I keep trying to tell people, it's a parody generator. That is a legitimately plausible continuation of the prompt.
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️@cstross
Asking ChatGPT means you deserve the answer you get ;-p
Asking ChatGPT means you deserve the answer you get ;-p
Steffi@cstross well, at least it didn't say 'sudo rm -Rf <file>' 😂
chuckadeus kummerer
Sean Eric Fagan@cstross That should not make me laugh as much as it did.
Mike Torr@cstross Ouch. I used to read BofH a lot. Definitely the same energy here.
davec 
Ben Chase@cstross is this real?!?
If so feeling better about job security etc
If so feeling better about job security etc
stacksmashing@cstross That's not ChatGPT, that's Google's Bard.
gunstick@cstross you should ask for the man page where this is explained. It's probably going to be hilarious.
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷@cstross Which is why LLMs for support incident chat always amuse me.
I wonder who is liable for destructive advice.
I wonder who is liable for destructive advice.
Childless Cat Lord
phamtq@cstross What version of chatGPT is that? I put the exact thing into ChatGPT 3 and 4 along with Bard and got the correct response.
Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏
Daniel Barlow@cstross "Ford! there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out."
James Williams@cstross Literally not ChatGPT.
David Giffin@cstross WTAF? Seriously?
askiiart@cstross When I tried it came up with a whole script for this XD
```
#!/bin/bash
file_path="path/to/your/file.txt"
if [ -e "$file_path" ]; then
read -p "Are you sure you want to delete '$file_path'? (yes/no): " confirm
if [ "$confirm" == "yes" ]; then
rm "$file_path"
echo "'$file_path' has been deleted."
else
echo "Deletion canceled."
fi
else
echo "'$file_path' does not exist."
fi
```
Ingvar@cstross And there I thought "rm" was the "read mail" tool (and the way to read root's mail was to run "rm -rf /" (the "-rf" clearly means "really fast").
Laurence Raphael Brothers@cstross At least it didn't recommend using sudo with it....
Badscrew@cstross so they scrapped the ol good usenet
BashStKid@cstross All hail the BOFH.
Tea time.@cstross I've still got an old BOFH T-shirt.
Jens Schaller@cstross This is so evil 😱
Chris Owens
Tito Swineflu@cstross Looking forward to the day that stackoverflow switches to language generators and the internet simply erases itself in one brief frenzy of toxic code cut-n-pasting.
Stan Stewart aka muz4now@cstross BOFH?!? Wow, that’s a blast from my enjoyable past.
Andrea Grandi 🦕@cstross that doesn't look like ChatGPT (the one from OpenAI) 🤔
I tried with my account and I get a correct result:
Yonle@cstross LOOOOOOOOL
FredPlus10@cstross Didn't one of the Google Engineers say that he thinks Google Bard has developed a conscience? I'm glad that we're still far away from that 😉
railmeat@cstross Amazing technology. AI will surly be taking over soon.