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People obsessed with ChatGPT

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TheRobotTakeover · 18/05/2025 12:56

I graduated from uni 5 years ago with a degree in computer science. Since then, I’ve been working at a great little company doing a mix of things (programming, excel macros, tech support, etc.)

1.5 months ago, my boss’s son came back from overseas. His job is to shadow me, understand our tech setup, and look for ways to boost the company's profits.

He's obsessed with ChatGPT. For e.g.:

  1. It takes <5 minutes to create a Microsoft Form. He insists we use ChatGPT for it and it ends up the same quality-wise while taking up triple the time.
  2. It usually takes me 30 mins to write the code for whatever we need. He insists we use ChatGPT. This usually fails especially with Typescript as ChatGPT tends to hallucinate code that doesn't actually work. He still thinks ChatGPT is the way forward.
  3. He doesn't like it when I (or my colleague) writes emails manually. He thinks having ChatGPT write it is "faster" as AI-generated emails are the future.

Tbh, these AI detours often take longer or produce worse results than just doing the task myself.

I'm not anti-AI. But I do think that it's just a tool not something that should replace everything. AIBU to be this resistant to his ChatGPT obsession?

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PrincessAnne5Eva · 18/05/2025 13:14

YANBU. I wouldn't use it for half the silly things people use it for. It mildly annoys me when people get it to do things that take 5 seconds without it (and the human version produces a better result). There's literally no evidence that GPT is better at most tasks than the average person, people just assume it knows more than it does.
It worries me how people uncritically take what it says as fact. Hallucinations are a known issue. And I really don't think they should have rolled out the Google AI overview, it's riddled with dangerous errors especially when it comes to health searches.

Just watch, some clever soul will be along in a minute with a comment from Chat GPT... 🙄

MyLordWizardKing · 18/05/2025 13:08

YANBU. I'm a developer, and find ChatGPT a useful alternative to trawling documentation, stack overflow etc. for specific functionality, and maybe generating a bit of boilerplate, but in its current state I wouldn't use it for anything more than that. (I certainly don't want it to program for me anyway!) AI-generated text is generally easy to spot and a bit offputting if you're expecting a personal response.

BarneyRonson · 18/05/2025 13:02

The amount of hallucinating that ai does is very undermining to the essential fabric of future understanding. It doesn’t bode well for collective mental. Health. I really believe that a sane grasp on reality is crumbled over time via ai interaction that defaults immediately to Fakery.