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First of all I don't live in a neighbourhood with something equivalent of a HOA, but we do have an organisational unit that involves the group of 6 homes where I live in.

We had a meeting regarding the repair of a shared drain pipe following an inspection we had earlier this year, the camera inspection had a cost of €120 that was equally divided among 6 households, so €20 each, nice and easy.

After getting the quote for the repairs, one of our neighbours asked chatgpt to split the bill, €1500 divided by 6.

edit: paraphrasing, he proudly said "I asked chatgpt and 1500/6 is 250”

Do you really need to ask an LLM to divide two numbers? something the cheapest calculator can do instantly, or better yet, something you can easily do I your head?

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[–] hushable@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I did reply "yes, 1500 divided by 3 is 500 and divided by 2 is 250". No acknowledgement of my commentary tho.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 8 points 1 day ago

Hmmh. Zero recognition of critical thinking.

Sorry for giving unsolicited advice: I think from an education perspective, you could do even better next time. Don't provide them with the answer. That's generally not what we do in teaching. They'll stay passive this way, as they still don't need to activate their brain once they get the answer handed on a silver platter. I'd rather reply something like: "And how do you know this is the correct answer?" That forces them to activate a few brain cells. And maybe whilst switching to active mode, their brain is able to store some new information. At least it might connect going with the lazy option (asking ChatGPT) came with some extra effort they themselves had to put in (by checking the maths). You kinda took that experience away from them because you did the extra work for them. Just don't expect any miracles. It just increases the odds a bit someone will learn something. But in the end they'll still need to do the thinking and learning themselves.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

I would have said "thanks for confirming with tons of long term ecological damage what you could have done in your head in 3 minutes, or checked on the built in calculator of whatever device you're using and been done in less time than it took me to write this message that, while petty, I feel is necessary to mock the use of chatgpt."

I uh.... Don't get along with dumb neighbors.