Peter N. M. HansteenI just saw a post that referred to ChatGPT as "Mansplaining as a service", and it is so wonderfully correct - instant generation of superficially plausible yet totally fabricated nonsense presented with unflagging confidence, regardless of topic, without concern, regard, or even awareness of the expertise of its audience :D #chatgpt #mansplaining #GenerativeAiIsGoingGreat
Count Regal Inkwell@pitrh Damn. You're right. No wonder techbros love it.
Rekha Murthy@VinesNFluff I assume it's because techbros *made* it!
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Shark Attak@pitrh
Nah, I see it more as a more advanced chatbot, stringing together words in a way that seems real enough.
Nah, I see it more as a more advanced chatbot, stringing together words in a way that seems real enough.
billseipel@pitrh chatGPT is the Cliff Claven of AI. Often correct but when its wrong ...its the biggest bullshitter...
Translator @ TRADCO@pitrh this may be the best definition yet!!! It’s the “totally fabricated nonsense presented with unflagging confidence, regardless of topic” for me 🤣🤣
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️@pitrh
If you say something loud enough and often enough AI will believe you and tell everyone else, amplifying the loudness and repetitiveness.
https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2024/01/ai-has-nothing-to-do-with-intelligence.html
Alecia Batson (she/her)Andrew Feeney (@[email protected])
@[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.
@aleciabatson @andrewfeeney Thanks! I think that's the one I lost track of before posting :)
robryk@pitrh it also does the exact opposite: a response to a claim that it's precious answer was wrong is ~always to agree with you
jeblucas@pitrh everyone keeps showing me ChatGPT haiku and acting like I should be amazed. I know how to write bad poetry; I don’t need help with that. Show me the cool things it can do that make my life and job easier. Best use case I have seen so far is turning (English) writing into editing.
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Big Kumera Energy@pitrh I've never tried it because I don't use AI but I bet starting a prompt with 'you are a woman, explaining [etc]' would have some depressing output.
Catherine Shinners@pitrh I believe my colleague @elsua coined that some months ago. So apt.
LAUREN@pitrh
That and it has absolutely data scraped the ubiquitous instances of mansplaining on social media that informs its responses.
That and it has absolutely data scraped the ubiquitous instances of mansplaining on social media that informs its responses.
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Jeremy List@Wikisteff @noondlyt @pitrh in theory the main training algorithm could minimise any differentiable loss function: it's actually a bit depressing how uncommon it is for people to use ones that aren't some version of "difference from examples"
FairWitness@pitrh I can't love that enough.
Aurélien Bompard@pitrh The only difference is that ChatGPT will admit it was wrong when called out.
Estarriol, Terrorist Dragon@pitrh White mansplianing even.
Anti Gravity@pitrh
ChatGPT may not be capable of brilliant analysis but to me it’s great strength is that it seems to be incapable of lying or carrying implicit biases as do most other sources of information.
ChatGPT may not be capable of brilliant analysis but to me it’s great strength is that it seems to be incapable of lying or carrying implicit biases as do most other sources of information.
@antigravy Can a not-conscious thing lie? It certainly generated made-up article titles it attributed to me. But somebody decided to call that phenomenon "AI halluscinations".
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Sorry, I’ve been unaware of anything like that. I have only played around with the free version on my phone and it has been refreshingly transparent about its limitations. It makes sense that someone using it as you are describing would just delete any disclaimers. Plagiarists gonna plagiarize (and mis-attribute).
Sorry, I’ve been unaware of anything like that. I have only played around with the free version on my phone and it has been refreshingly transparent about its limitations. It makes sense that someone using it as you are describing would just delete any disclaimers. Plagiarists gonna plagiarize (and mis-attribute).
@antigravy Some limited experiments, lightly annotated: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/chatgpt_on_ipv6_and_openbsd_poetry.html, https://nxdomain.no/~peter/chatgpt_writes_pf.conf.html and finally where it got exactly one thing right (I did write The Book of PF, the other titles are things I am rather sure I have read but I did not write): https://chat.openai.com/share/cf07bdc6-4341-4a48-90e9-88c85bd1248b
This mainly demonstrates that the quality of the output depends critically on the quality and volume of input it has been trained on (aka classic GIGO, but now with billions of parameters)
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I have to admit that I know very little about internet protocol but I still find your probing of ChatGPT’s brain pretty entertaining.
I have to admit that I know very little about internet protocol but I still find your probing of ChatGPT’s brain pretty entertaining.
SamuelJohnson@pitrh To suggest that that's all it is would be absurd.
I have used it to help troubleshoot some IT problems and increasingly use it to find things that I have not been able to find with increasingly useless search engines - most recently to find the name of an author I used to follow on Twitter and whose name I couldn't recall (Amy Siskind; democracy and LGBT rights activist). In no way are these, nor any other of the uses I've made so far, "mansplaining".
LLMs aren't going to be uninvented
@samueljohnson Happy to hear it's been useful to you. Unfortunately in my experience it has been more of a noise generator than anything else.
@pitrh I've seen rubbish output, same as everyone else. I have contradicted it and had it apologise and come back with better information (haven't yet seen completely fictitious output but I know it's possible). It's certainly not intelligent and only fools would treat it as if it was.
Damning a rapidly evolving tool instead of the foolish reliance on it will of course be lapped up the even more foolish.
Hees Daman 
@pitrh Yes, I feel the competition. 👈
@pitrh I will print this and hang it on my office wall. Thank you.
Djeannot@pitrh
There is a Macrongpt also, talking of mansplaining.
There is a Macrongpt also, talking of mansplaining.
LAF and LOVE@pitrh Perfect description. Like sitting a hundred monkeys at keyboards and seeing if they create the Greatest Novel ever written.
@RevLindsay reminds me of https://ifunny.co/picture/no-shakespeare-yet-but-here-s-another-copy-of-art-JTQkwAqj8 (originally from the New Yorker)
Tobias Goeschel@pitrh also explains why it is so appealing to a particular audience…
Tmmike@pitrh Ha Ha MAHA