Before trusting an AI to tell you about stuff you don’t know, ask it to tell you about things you’re an expert in.
@kfury I always start by asking 'em about things that I'm the only person to have written about. If it gives a correct answer, it's copyright laundering. If it gives an incorrect answer, then I know the AI is garbage.
@josh @kfury I started off asking chatgpt questions about pgtcl, that I'm currently a significant maintainer for, and its answers sounded like they could be quotes from the manual... but were often as not completely wrong.
@resuna @josh @kfury I asked ChatGPT about myself, and it said that I'm on faculty at a nearby law school, which came as a surprise but will really please my mother.
@msbellows @resuna @josh @kfury I have a name that I know belongs to only one other person in the world. ChatGPT thinks I'm a late 19th-century composer and it attributed an opera to me that a quick google search could find the actual composer of.

@tito_swineflu @msbellows @resuna @josh @kfury Good to know that I'm still a ghost:

Me: Tell me about <me>. He was born in California in <year>.

ChatGPT: I couldn't find any notable public figures or individuals of significance named <me> born in California in <year> in the available information.

I'm not an individual of significance? FU!

@david @msbellows @resuna @josh @kfury some of the bots do this to me too, which is the correct answer.
@tito_swineflu @david @msbellows @resuna @josh Oh now I just feel self-conscious.
@kfury
When I asked about me I got nearly the identical answer. There is apparently a fairly generic answer for "industry designers"

@scottjenson @kfury Contrarian take on this whole thread: we're all immune from hackers and thieves: we're broke and boring,.

(Except for Kevin, who inevitably will become the victim of his own fame.)

@kfury @scottjenson (Light my pipe, settle back in chair) Sounds like you have an interesting story to tell.