This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
If a piece of the model's answer is genuinely useful, quote it and say why. "I checked with Claude and this part lines up:" works great.
It still drives me nuts when my boss does that. Especially since the next thing he sends is a bunch of AI-generated code he just wants us to copy and paste into our application. He treats anything the magic AI says as authoritative, and it overrides anything an actual person can say to him.
I am once again astounded at how stupid people are, man. People be sending me AI-generated statements to prove me wrong all the time. I have a family member who always tries to be sly about it but I always see through it and they don't understand how I do but they sure keep fucking doing it.
I got an email from a client last week asking me to install an AI-generated list of containers onto a server. The key container, the database at the center of the whole system, has commits from Claude in it's git repository. Great start guys.
They outsouced the software architect job to a chatbot and then had a veteran of the industry who has been around since the internet equivalent of the big bang install a handful of docker containers. Reverse centaur to the max.
It's going to hurt in 12 months time if they realise the reason why everything sucks is because they built on sand. But they probably won't even realise why the project failed because their chatbot won't be able to tell them why.
Or maybe just don't use AI at all? It's not a reliable source of information, it's unsustainable in terms of resources consumed, it's unethically trained and it makes everyone's lives worse.
We were having an urgent issue at work and my coworker said he had a solution and I said what was it and he sent like three paragraphs which I read through and I said, "what the fuck does this even say? did you even read this?" he said, he thought it was a solution and I asked why he bothered to even send it and he said he wanted to send me the "source". I was like, I don't have time to deal with the core of this issue but if anyone sends me AI shit without checking it themselves, I'm gonna flip.
This drives me nuts, when an urgent issue comes up I value concise, accurate answers so we can quickly agree and actually do the work.
We had an urgent issue recently and upper management wanted a plan for validating the fix. Rather than talking to the expert the manager one level down just sent an AI written suggestion without checking with anyone. After having checked with the correct person, I had to respond with "This is the MIL standard, we should follow this" while "ignoring" the manager's email. Luckily I had the goodwill to get away with correcting people like that.
By AI do you mean LLMs specifically? All LLMs, or just the corporate ones? Because I fully agree that ChatGPT, Gemini, etc. truly are awful. But this is also catching genuinely useful technological advances in with the wide net. AI isn't just LLMs, LLMs aren't just chat bots. And claiming a technologies worst implementations are indicative of the entire tech would see just about every single technology ever made fall in the same category.
if someone pastes text from llm, i wont even read it.
My response to one person was "If you couldn't take the time to write it, what makes you think I'm going to take the time to read it."
https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/ is more thoughtful and interesting
This comes obvious to me, but if I wanted to ask an LLM I would've done it myself
I'll wait for the "Fuck you for using AI you lazy twat" website.
Scroll to the bottom, there's a link to a spicier phrasing.
Also, quote from there:
You're just making someone lose respect for you in real time, in a way that's hard to walk back.
I feel that, I have lost respect for people that way and don't want to be friends anymore :(
Pro tip for any hiring managers out there. At the end of your job description, prompt inject something that is totally unrelated to the job at the end of the job posting. So far I have been able to catch 75% of the sloppy AI applications using this method. For me I added something like, a nice to have is to explain and understand an Q shaped team structure.
AI gets super creative with what that means(means nothing). For the people who do get through, that is usually their first question to me.
Or the angry version: https://dontpastetheai.com/angry/
Just mindlessly sending back this URL to someone that sent you a bunch of AI slop is the same thing they are complaining about, making your "brain a gizmo".
One of a very few areas where /c/fuck_ai and /r/singularity can agree
