To want to tell posters who say "I asked ChatGPT for you OP"......

[RudePie]

To fuck right off.

I've seen it on numerous threads today.

If I start a thread, or reply to someone I want to hear from real humans.

If I wanted to ask ChatGPT I don't then I would do that.

Maybe anyone who replies with "I asked ChatGPT for you and they said....." could have an instant ban and/or a fine.

I absolutely agree. It's like they think it doesn't occur to us to use chatgpt and they're doing a huge favour 🙄

You are damn not being unreasonable. AI/ChatGPT/ all of it can fuck off.

I tried to look up hair styles this afternoon and every picture was bastard AI. I want to see a real woman not a sodding picture.

Totally agree. Up there with the most pointless of comments.

It’s the superior tone that I find irritating, as if only they know how to use ChatGPT. Literally every question on here could be “answered” by AI, but that isn’t what people come here for.

Tbh I really like chat gpt. It’s generally accurate about factual things and I’d ask that search bot before I’d trust a mumsnetter that I don’t know from Adam and cannot verify their credentials.

I probs wouldn’t write it on a thread tho, but sometimes I do wonder why folk are asking on here when they could find the factual information out themselves.

It's even worse on Facebook where most people seem to be genuinely thankful that someone has asked ChatGPT for them.

Quote :"It’s generally accurate about factual things..."

This is what I find an issue. Because it takes a bit of knowledge to know if it is accurate or not, and if a person already has that knowledge, then why use AI ?

When I discuss/debate/argue online, I prefer to "stay in my lane" for want of a better term. . I try to stick to stuff I know about, and if it's a subject that interests me but I have low knowledge of, I ask. Or I post in an asking way.

I reckon AI can be a danger if people are posting stuff as fact, when they don't actually know with a good degree of certainty that it is.

I agree OP, and I actually like AI 😆

But it adds nothing to a thread that someone has started in order to hear from other humans.

But people post as ‘fact’ because they are a nurse/doctor/solicitor etc but you have no idea if they are who they say they are nor have the knowledge/skills they portray, therefore your no better off as you still have to cross reference their information.

Im not saying it’s right for every post (for example an opinion) but I do this it has its place.

I read your title... and completed your first sentence verbatim.

You are not wrong, OP.

@Pippa12
It’s generally accurate about factual things

Generally isn't good enough for me. I haven't used it much because it gave me a completely wrong answer to a factual question early doors so now I don't trust it.

Also environmental reasons.

I know of two instances recently when AI was wrong, or at least not in possession of all the facts.

Both were unimportant in the overall scheme of things, but knowing it got these small things wrong does make me wary of it.

YANBU at all. It’s not like they have special privileged access to it. I always find it bizarre.

Could be answered badly or wrongly by ChatGPT, it gets things wrong so often never take what it says as right.

My post calling someone out on this got deleted the other day - I called them brainless 🤣 what is it though, if not stupid?? A poster can easily chatGPT for themselves, they don’t need someone going ‘this is what ChatGPT says’. Fucking useless and also an insult to the OP.

I would like to see a different text colour on forums, if possible, for people to highlight if text posted is AI generated.

Just a little colour button on the formatting bar below would do.

I am finding with some posts that there is a definite change in writing style between paragraphs. And I have a strong suspicion AI output is being pasted in.

To me, the way a person writes is often an indicator of them as a person, in debate terms I mean. It's difficult to explain. It's maybe similar to what folk were saying about children developing communication skills when we were wearing masks ? AI can sort of mask parts of a person.

I suppose I mean it can make them appear really smart of a subject, when actually they are not.

I reckon it is ethically wrong, and dishonest, to pass AI off as your own writing without saying it is.

I'm sure they mean well...

👏YADNBU

I like co-pilot. Invaluable if you are planning a counter argument or a campaign. You can feed in all the info in a completely random way as it comes to you. You dont have to worry about correct spelling or punctuation. You dont have to worry about getting the points in the most logical order. The AI will sort it out for you under appropriate headings in bullet point form so that it makes a cohesive argument. You can always change it into your own words and style once you are happy with the outline and content.

I wish Id had it when I was writing my doctorate. It would have made translating rough notes into a 1st draft so much easier. MY thesis was 180K words done without mechanical aids. I doubt if I could do that now!

Absolutely agree. If I wanted the opinion of a machine who has no idea what it is to actually BE human and has scraped all its answers from an amalgam of sites which it has illegally copied - then I would explicitly ask for it.

It's the experience of human existence that makes humans able to answer. Unless it's a question like 'what time does the last bus leave?' I want a human voice (and even the bus question I would double check an AI answer).

Oh I use chatGPT and find it useful 70% of the time but it’s stupid to assume an OP needs you to ChatGPT for them. Dumb and so superior.

Our local cricket club recently sent a newsletter that had been run through chatGPT. Bold subheadings, each with an emoji. The rule of 3 all over the place. Ridiculous emotive language - I quote:

’They are families chatting. Children running on the outfield. Teams celebrating together. The BBQ sizzling. The bar serving. The club alive.’

🤢 a complete departure from their usual tone.

I saw someone posted the other day saying that they ask ChatGPT to create bedtime stories for their children, which I thought was pretty tragic tbh

I've run it through ChatGPT has become the new new 'I've asked my husband' on here. It makes people look really stupid. Particularly if they call it ChatGBT

Not bothered if people use it to help write their posts though. People are very hard on posters over their writing ability. I'm not surprised people want to use ChatGPT for that

If you compare an AI to the task of making a home presentable I would say its work is equivalent to that of a cleaner. It goes around and puts things in a logical order, leaving you with a template. Its then up to the owner to add the finishing touches of style which turn a house into a home. We all know that AIs can make things up and get things wrong. So you have to check the facts just as you would if you were writing the piece manually from scratch.

I think people who rate artifical intelligence for this sort of thing lack actual intelligence.