Stop using CHATGPT on MN!!

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Ive seen so many threads recently where the OP has a problem, and a poster goes:
"Here's what ChatGPT said:"
Followed by a copy and paste.

OMFG! Its so boring! We come on MN to get real opinions and ideas from real people.

Ditto with "cutesy", selfconciously "amusing" posts, like: "I asked ChatGPT to write a poem about this, here's what it came up with:"

Stop! Those "here's a funny limerick/poem" posts were hard to stomach back when they were written by the actual human. But clogging up a thread with 20 robot-generated lines of guff? Nah.

I have no issue with people using it to correct their grammar but those posts are pretty subtle and ij am not sure people would notice them
The ones I object to are where someone has cut and pasted the original question into chat gpt and then just cut and pasted the answer back into mumsnet. It is lazy and patronising.

This post is a bit ableist.

Some people may use chat gp or other ai resources to help vocalise their opinion.

Using chatgpt to voice someone's opinion clearly could help those with dyslexia for example be able to communicate clearly

There are plenty of disabled people who are anti-AI and don't like their condition being used to justify the simplification and dumbing down of society

That’s a bit of a reach. Using tools like GPT or AI to help structure thoughts or communicate clearly isn’t “dumbing down society” it’s making it more accessible. People with dyslexia, processing disorders, speech/language difficulties, anxiety, or even just fatigue might find it genuinely helpful to get their point across without being judged on spelling, tone, or structure.
Just because some disabled people don’t like a particular tool doesn’t mean others shouldn’t use it. Accessibility doesn’t need to be one-size-fits-all that’s kind of the whole point.

Technically it can't lie in the same way it can't tell the truth. It has no real concept of those things. In the same way of I start typing thing and my predictive text tries to suggest "things" instead. It isn't trying to mislead. It it just making a prediction of what it thinks I want to say. Chat GPT is much more sophisticated but also can't understand truth/lies in a human sense.

But that's nitpicking - I know exactly what you mean!

I actually wanted to type "thongs" not "things" but autocorrect made an incorrect assumption. Proving my point.

Using AI absolutely is dumbing society down. There is evidence of it. Using AI do to simple tasks is using a computer to think for you

Throwing out "it's abelist to not like AI" is saying it's something disabled people should be thankful for. And there are plenty who don't like it at all and find it offensive to suggest that they need this tech to think for them

They will still be judged anyway because AI replies are usually glaringly obvious because of their flowery word choices, weird sentence structures, uses of emdashes and frankly inhuman content. And because AI will only really tell you what you want to hear anyway

In fairness, I think there is suspicion Groks recent comments re Hitler were a human behind the scenes pulling levers...

Ok I’m such a mum but what is CHATGPT

What do you mean by such a mum? Most of the posters on this thread will be mums, it's not some kind of barrier to being aware of one of the biggest issues of our times

Ok I have no idea what you actually mean.
just asked what it is 🤷🏻‍♀️
what’s an issue of our time ?

Ai is an issue of our time, due to job losses now and as they advance.
chatgpt is one of the more popular ones people use.
this thread is about people putting prompts into ChatGPT and posting them instead of their actual thoughts. It’s easy to spot them because currently it outputs a ridiculous amount of em dashes and just a hundred word waffle when ten would do

An issue of our time means one of the biggest developments affecting the world now and into the future. If not the biggest.

Ah okay ai I understand now thank you for the classification it makes sense now. I also agree that it’s a bonkers idea, the government is planning something

I knew what issue of our time meant just not CHATGPT i now understand thanks

This makes me laugh 😂

The government is planning something 😂😂😂

I don’t know why the polarity between this comment and the usefulness of ChatGpt has got me chuckling for some reason.

Actually I dont think its ableist at all. There are times when you read posts by people who clearly have some difficulties with typing, or grammar, or language. But their posts feel very idiosyncratic and sometimes charismatic. That's human. Using ChatGPT doesn't just streamline language, it erases any individual quirks of thought or voice. And to quote (probably?) ChatGPT itself: "And that right there? That's criminal."

@mumtumok, go here and ask it something. You are talking to a massive computer.
https://chatgpt.com/

Yes!

So sick of posters saying “I put it in to ChatGPT and this is what is said…”.

Why??

Not as annoying as the weird AI options under every post on FB now. Eg photo of a lost dog - options underneath saying ‘when did the dog go missing?’ ‘Where could the dog be now?’ etc. As if AI could give any extra insights. It’s weird.

It reminds me of the old Michael Frayn novel The Tin Men, a satire of automation where an institute is trying to develop computer technology to take over all the dull jobs humans do

If only AI was taking all the boring jobs. Instead, in the last week I have read stories about a new AI literary translation company that has translators up in arms and how it’s destroying graduate recruitment. On this thread the prospect of it gutting academia has been raised.

All the most mentally stimulating human work is in its crosshairs.

Agree. I'm dyslexic
I don't think the point of ChatGPT is to help with spelling/grammar. Spell check does that (although it's not perfect). Chat GPT puts your thoughts/arguments on the page for you and.even writes them. I feel like that's a much more fundamental part of communication/reasoning to outsource. I wouldn't mind reading someone's thoughts if they had spelling errors..I would mind if they weren't the persons thoughts at all.
And sometimes working out why you think something is difficult - that's exactly why it's an important skill to practice.

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I would rather get judged for my spelling /grammar than use chatgpt. I cant stand it.

It doesn't seem to have been programmed to use paragraphs in its long ramblings.