tante14h ago
I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.
Show threadrozie11h ago

@tante Why? Because it suggests you are not smart enough to do something? Or some other reason?

I guess it is transparent. It provides help (the best given person can give, probably), the source and instructions how to get it by yourself in the future. If you don't like it, you can just ignore the answer. Or person.

Show threadDavid Culley10h ago
@rozie If I wanted the output of ChatGPT, I would've asked ChatGPT myself. When I ask a groups of humans specifically because I want an answer from an experienced human user and someone replies with LLM output, that adds absolutely nothing of value to the conversation. It furthermore implies that the person thinks I don't know how to use ChatGPT, which is insulting. It just wastes my time.
Show threadrozie9h ago
@davidculley So giving an answer based on RFC, encyclopedia, book, manual or Wikipedia implies that a person asking a question does not know how to use them and is insulting too?
If not, what makes the difference?
Show threadmathew

@rozie @davidculley With an encyclopedia, RFC or book you know the source of the information and know that it has been generated by someone who actually understands things. You can also then judge the likely accuracy based on who that person was — for example, if it’s a book by Dinesh D'Souza you can safely assume it’s garbage. Whereas with ChatGPT the output might be a big pile of D’Souza and you’ll have no way to know.

If people wanted to ask ChatGPT and then check the output against trustworthy sources and provide citations, that would be fine, but they never do.

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Show threadrozie7h ago

@mathew @davidculley Well, do you know all the authors of the books? If not, how do you know are they trustworthy or not? People tend to bias, they sometimes misunderstand things... If the answer comes from a website, not a book, it's even harder.

And Wikipedia? Mix of authors, hard to check (does anybody even check?), often biased, with websites as sources.

And at last an answer without a source, from human. What is the value? Any way to check it? Likely not.