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Don't paste the AI. (dontpastetheai.com)
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[–] 105 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Personally "I checked with Claude" invalidates anything you just said, even if it was properly researched and legitimately correct. As soon as you invoke the slopbots I lose any regard for your answer.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    This is the reason why you simply don't tell anyone that you have used AI... it's the same if you researched Wikipedia or your grandpas 1950s copy of Encyclopedia Britannica: It simply doesn't matter where you got your information from as long as it is valid

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Judging or dismissing a PERSON for using tools you don’t respect = valid.

    Saying you “invalidate” content that is “properly researched and legitimately correct” = what?

    I mean most people have no idea how to “properly research” - this has been true for centuries - sloppy research is not a new phenomenon. If something was “properly researched” why would you reject it?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago* (1 child)

    Saying you “invalidate” content that is “properly researched and legitimately correct” = what?

    I read it as meaning the definition of the person producing the content of “properly researched and legitimately correct” rather than one's own.

    Content produced by somebody who claims it has been “properly researched and legitimately correct” and that person thinks Claude is a proper research and validation tool, should be treated as invalid until proven otherwise.

    It's like when a Junior level professional comes to you with something and says "I made sure this is all correct" - one can't really trust that the thing is indeed "all correct".

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago

    Right. They MEANT “if you mention Claude I don’t trust anything else you said”.

    They just didn’t SAY that.

    I’m not a fan of AI and don’t use it - however I can’t say I have found humans to be particularly clear, accurate or reliable either. Myself included… we all make mistakes. 🙂

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  • [–] 6 points 16 hours ago

    As the one says above it is "Appeal to Authority" by adding Claude, or ChatrGPT for the more base level folks, from what I have seen.

    Somehow they assume that putting that in will somehow make their words more valid, but hearing it makes me question everything, and dismiss potential valid points made alongside it.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Because we don't see all that research, we just see a comment where you said you asked the hallucination machine, so now, if I want to use anything you said, I have to go duplicate all that research before I can trust it.

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  • [–] 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    That's true regardless of the sources someone used.

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  • [–] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    So what you meant to say was “if you claim that you legitimately researched but you mention Claude - I will assume you did not”.

    Which is valid. But is not what you said.

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  • [–] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    More accurately, if you claim you used Claude, I will assume absolutely anything produced with it has a high chance of being rife with errors. If you provided citations for every last detail and then said Claude put it together, I wouldn't trust it until I've personally verified the sources because not only will it hallucinate details, it'll hallucinate sources. Anything produced with it is inherently untrustworthy.

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  • [–] 5 points 15 hours ago

    To add on to what you said, i would trust the same thing more if it was just a human saying it was correct and implicitly staking their reputation on it, vs if the same person said, "i checked with Claude and it agreed."

    To me, this means the person turned off their brain and is invoking Claude's reputation, which also means i shouldn't trust that person's judgment either.

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  • [+] -14 points 23 hours ago* (2 children)

    You guys are the worst. I’m now convinced all of you complaining have nothing going on. Every industry is using this shit. I was just watching this video of a big musician YouTuber using a vibe coded app that lets you create guitar tones by what you tell it. Kojima did an ad with Prada using it. You can be the curmudgeon all you fucking want but go do it to the big guys and quit fighting this bullshit culture war against low hanging fruit. You miserable fucks.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    Every industry is using this shit.

    So I work for a landscaping company. How is AI going to help me move piles of dirt, or rake up leaves?

    We already tried using it to generate site plans/maps and communicate with clients, and it's worse than useless for both of those things. What else you got for me?

    BTW, I'm not genuinely asking for business advice here, I'm pushing back against your assertion that every industry is using this shit. I'd go as far as to say that AI has no relevance to most workplaces.

    "Vibe coded app that lets you create guitar tones by what you tell it" buddy, I've played guitar for years, and this sounds silly as hell to me. Describing the tone I want in English words sounds much more difficult than just twisting some knobs. I think the youtuber guy may just be trying to sell a product.

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