Imagine you scheduled a group brainstorming session to get some important work done, and one of the attendees casually mentions that they took LSD for the first time right before the meeting.

That's how you should treat ChatGPT output.

@mattblaze am I the only one thinking that that brainstorming session could actually be quite productive? And if not, it would at least be fun.
@Disputatore Maybe. But you definitely don't want to give the LSD guy final edit.

@mattblaze @Disputatore Oh wow, this reminded me of something I hadn't thought of in quite a while...

In college a friend's chemistry lab group had a report due, and after each doing their respective parts, one of them was tasked with the final document preparation and hand-in. The other two found out some time later (after getting some concerned questions from the professor), that hand-in guy had apparently been quite high while doing so (on exactly what I don't know, possibly LSD?). At the time I saved copies of the actual files from my friend and managed to dig them up, and it's really quite something. (Some choice excerpts pictured here.)

So yeah, don't give LSD guy final edit...but sometimes LSD guy can take you by surprise.

@zev @mattblaze 🤣