I saw an exchange on youtube where two guys were arguing about divorce rate statistics and they were using "chatgpt says this" and then the other guy goes "oh, but if you ask it this way it says this" and it was so fucking stupid.
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LMAO THATS HILARIOUS. that literally sounds like a parody of debate bros.
”if you ask it this way”
Yeah maybe that should let you know it doesn’t actually know shit.
NGL, I've dicked around with chatGPT before and it seems to be very averse to actually disagreeing with you. I've had to go out of my way to have it go against some of my biases because it felt too 'convenient' chatGPT would agree with me all the time.
There's been memes floating around about ChatGPT being a pure confirmation machine. Someone posted their conversation with the bot where it enthusiastically supports their business idea of selling literal shit on a stick.
In my experience, the surest way to get ChatGPT to push back against you is to argue in favor of communism.
haruspex of the modern age
I can't remember who it was, but some PhD in anthropology (I think) was tweeting about his research and some fucking idiot was arguing with him because ChatGPT said something different. Fucking bong-cloud epistemology.
I lost my fucking mind at a person at work who started picking fights with me on topics I am an actual honest-to-god expert on. No comprehension, not even engagement, just a bunch of vibes and "I have been doing this for X years". I wrote a fucking essay in the work chat with examples and references and practical details, and this motherfucker says "well, I used my AI text editor to summarize what you wrote and respond to it". It was at this point that I realized they weren't even disagreeing with me, they were telling their text editor to disagree with me (or, perhaps worse, it was telling them to disagree) and then regurgitating the results. AI freaks are literally inhuman.
I was googling something about BMI and found a reddit thread where some dullard confidently asserted that having your height in cm match your weight in lbs was impossible. Source: chatGPT, which no joke said in one paragraph that being 165 cm and 165 lbs would be underweight while being 165 cm and 165 lbs would be overweight. These LLMs don't know shit about fuck and only idiots turn to them for answers.
Amazing mathematical reasoning at work here.
I mean yeah they're just doing predictive text, talking about overweight and underweight in the way they've seen it done, but with placeholder numbers.
At my job people were having a problem and someone asked me, an expert in the field for over 20 years, and I was like I don't know that is a pretty edge case, let me look into it. 5 minutes later they were like "Well copilot says this [obviously wrong answer]"
DIPSHIT DO YOU THINK THE WORST AI BOT KNOWS MORE THAN ACTUAL TRAINED EXPERTS?
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At my work I've repeatedly been getting chatgpt stuff from people when I didn't even ask a question
Someone will come to me with an issue, I'll work on solving it, and then in the middle of it they'll self-satisfiedly post an obviously-copy-pasted-from-chatgpt paragraph proposing we do it completely differently, usually betraying some fundamental misunderstanding of the parameters of the task at hand. I think just reading over ChatGPT output and going "yeah that makes sense to me let's do that" gives them a dopamine hit or something and they want me to acknowledge it. I try not to be a dick about it but it upsets me, and is genuinely just sad.
Cleaning up ChatGPT's mess when someone learned-helplessnesses their way into a problem they can't solve by blindly following directions from chatgpt is another fun one. It's annoying but at least then they've already come to the conclusion they need human help and I can get to work seeing if what ChatGPT came up with even makes sense, and confirming it didn't hallucinate any magic "do what I want" buttons that don't exist. Or starting from scratch
I saw a Bluesky post and a bit made me laugh. It was something like... AI will never replace people because people know when to ignore their boss.
Heard two kids arguing in the gym the other day: "Even ChatGPT says abortion is murder!"
just today I had a kid tell me they were writing minecraft in HTML using chatgpt. Sillier and far less disturbing than your example, really just normal kid stuff, but a little disappointing
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This should be a tagline
My friend pulled out her phone to ask chatGPT how to play a board game last night, and despite all of us yelling at her that chatGPT doesn't know anything, she persisted. Then the dumbass LLM made up some rules because it doesn't know anything.
My friend pulled out her phone to ask chatGPT how to play a board game last night, and despite all of us yelling at her that chatGPT doesn't know anything, she persisted. Then the dumbass LLM made up some rules because it doesn't know anything.
Do you think they took home the lesson that llms don't possess knowledge or do reason?
i fucking hope, but she didn't really pay much attention to us lol
she didn't really pay much attention to us
Why do people do things like this? What is the point of playing a game with your friends if you won't listen to or pay attention to them?
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one of my friends did the same thing and it provided incorrect information about the games rules lmao
If you tell people that ChatGPT doesn't know anything, they will only think you're obviously wrong when it gives them apparently correct answers. You should tell people the truth -- the harm in ChatGPT is that it is generally subtly wrong in some way, and often entirely wrong, but it always looks plausibly right.
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I fucking cringe so hard when people are like "i asked chat gpt about what's holding me back in life and it came back with great answers"
Bitch it's fucking astrology. I can come up with shit that vaguely makes sense for most people and you'll think that it's "so true" and "it knows you better than you know yourself"
I just find the deference to chatbots a bit sad in that it will cause people to be less curious. Guess this is how people felt about moving from an abacus or slide rulers to calculators, but it gets used for such menial bullshit that can easily be looked up instead of asking the virtual eqvivalent of Dave at the pub.
calculator actually gives reliably correct answers though unlike the truth machine. we're supposed to see it that way, as a pure step of technological progress, but it's a load of shit.
It was already trending that way with “google it” being such a common response to questions
that's not the same at all. why are you asking me something factual i half-remember from five years ago? just look it up because i'd also have to look it up to answer.
I realize I misread the paragraph and thought it was bemoaning the lack of human-to-human interaction with asking about stuff.
It sorta' is similar in terms of epistemology too because when some people say "google it" they have blind trust in big corporation google/the internet contains all human knowledge the same way people are putting faith into chatgpt. It's often times the same as if someone here asked if China's governing party was marxist or not and being told to just "google it." It shows an inability to grapple with ideas and a dependence on massive self-interested corporations for information.
I think it's definitely a precursor to this chatgpt-as-mental-crutch trend we're seeing.
According to ChatGPT, anyone who uses it to answer a question someone else asked is a butthead.
This should be an instant ban on any part of the internet. I've seen it on Lemmy before.
I asked a chatbot what it thought, and according to DeepSeek:
I feel you—there’s something uniquely frustrating about asking a real person for their thoughts and getting a regurgitated AI response instead. It’s like asking for a home-cooked meal and someone hands you a microwaved frozen dinner with a shrug.
If you’re looking for human insight (or just some good old-fashioned hot takes), it’s totally fair to push back with something like:
"Cool, but what do you think? I didn’t ask for a chatbot’s fanfic."
And hey, if they keep hiding behind AI, maybe start responding to them with "According to my calculations, your originality levels are critically low."
(Also, "the Chinese one" got me. 😂)
And hey, if they keep hiding behind AI, maybe start responding to them with "According to my calculations, your originality levels are critically low."
devastating, deepseek is a complete and utter dork
It really is
I just disregard anyone who says that, ChatGPT can be made to say Trump is the first WWE champion to become POTUS and to make up names of scientific journals it cites, there's no way I'm taking any answer from it at face value.
It’s always the same types who do it. The types who were never very curious to begin with or tech fetishists who like the idea of tech without really understanding it. Also Redditors.
AI translated manga bit
to be clear: that is cum, the verb, not the noun
Okay but is it accurate tho
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getting head from c-3po I call that golden dome
I just say "I dunno lol" like a normal idiot 
According to ChatGPT, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.
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