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.

As if trolling by humans wasn't bad enough!

Sounds like if someone had given the LLM the brief: go forth and cause hurt, antagonism and disruption, it couldn't have done a better job.

Or the brief: break down faith in human kindness.

The environmental impact of AI is truly terrifying to anyone who gives an informed shit about the environment. I don't particularly care whether it's helpful or not (and I'm personally of the view that the free stuff is not): I DO NOT want people using AI and squandering vast amounts of natural resource in my name when I haven't asked for it.

Completely agree, it's rife in Facebook groups too. Recently in a gardening group someone asked advice and someone commented a Chat GPT answer and i commented to ask what was the point. Is this really what we want AI for? To replace communities of knowledgeable people chatting about a hobby? Discussing ideas, giving advice, learning, that's kind of part of the whole experience isn't it?

Can I just add that I hate the AI descriptions on ebay? I don’t buy a lot on there but used to love reading the descriptions of stuff I was interested in, now its just a generic, flowery meaningless paragraph of nonsense that signals a very lazy seller.

Totally agree.
If I wanted to outsource my thinking to a machine I could do so myself.

With the arrival of agentic AI we could have AI agents posting autonomously on mumsnet and replying to each other making the whole site incoherent and meaningless. This will ruin their bottom line if they don't draw a line.

Perhaps one option is that whenever any of us write an OP we ask people replying to NOT use AI.

So did you say anything on these threads at the time OP? It's not achieving much to start a thread complaining about other Mumsnetters behaviour without speaking to them directly.

An OP trying to police responses in any way never works.

Fair enough.

I googled a question about the late Queen Mother the other day. I even then tried asking again with the more detailed 'Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother' but what ever I did and however I searched, the only results it came up with were about QE2.

I also have a somewhat niche hobby and occasionally need to look something up. It often gets answers spectacularly wrong there, and beginners to the hobby are frequently led astray.

lol. This is a good one @Rosti1981 😂

'downvote'

That's there with not knowing about Popes and various Queens Elizabeth. Very slick at what it's been programmed with, but utterly clueless about everything else in the universe.

Interesting responses.

I deliberately didn't include any reference to the waste of resources in my OP as I have children, pets, drive a car and go on long haul holidays (so sue me!).

Despite this, and leaving aside the absolute drivel that AI (often) comes up with, and there are plenty of examples on this thread, the needless waste of resources does bother me. When someone says "I asked ChapGPT for you...." I imagine that an anonymous stranger has marched into my house whilst I am not there, turned all the taps on and then fucked off for 2 hours.

💯

Completely agree!

Well, this isn't anything like having a car or children. It is more like someone running a car or going on holiday on your behalf when you didn't ask them to

How that scenario would come about I do not know 😄, but hopefully you know what I mean!

While I do not disagree, I do wonder why people are seemingly very concerned about AI use of water, but not about general internet usage. Is it people are just ignorant to this fact? Streaming an hour's netflix is the equivalent to something like 20 chatgpt prompts for example. Using Mumsnet, streaming music, video chatting, anything using data will require data centres and usage of water.

But to speak on the OP, it's a very strange thing people do. It's like they have to have a voice but have nothing of value to say.

@InveterateWineDrinker

You summed it up much more effectively than the post I just wrote.

I'm sure we could all do more to "save the planet", but we make choices that are personal to us as individuals.

I (and many others on this thread) choose not to use AI and I don't want other people using it on my behalf.

I find myself insulted by the downskilling element - don't bother to look something up or use your own judgement, just ask a machine that's not got the faintest idea and then trust its answer.

Plus it's going to fill the book market with slop that does nothing for storytelling.

Hate it.

An hour watching something on Netflix > twenty prompts typed into ChatGPT in five minutes, most of which will be things like 'picture of a monkey tapdancing on Trump's head' 'make him wear a red coat' 'Not Trump, the monkey' 'meal five prunes yoghurt turkey ham banana roquefort' 'don't use American measurements' 'convert to ounces' and 'make it low carb and take out the turkey'.

I have seen a thread close to that already. Two posters posting AI at each other. With one of the posters (on the other side), I am factchecking some of what that posters AI says, and I do find errors.

What I personally don't like though, and what I find worrying, is that when the poster is challenged on what phrases and terms mean in their obviously AI generated content, they can't explain it. And it derails the conversation.

So the AI is just sucking up human resources as people argue over what it means. Instead of people just saying " I don't know about that specific point"

A wee bit of a tangent. This from Sky news today:

AI willing to 'go nuclear' in wargames, study finds - amid 'stand-off' between Pentagon and leading AI lab | US News | Sky News

I remember a film about this from the 80s.

That is very unsettling.

I wish it were possible to autoblock people who did that.

Utterly worthless contributions