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[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (12 children)

I don't get how so many people carry their computer illiteracy as a badge of honor.

Chatgpt is useful.

Is it as useful as Tech Evangelists praise it to be? No. Not yet - and perhaps never will be.

But I sure do love to let it write my mails to people who I don't care for, but who I don't want to anger by sending my default 3 word replies.

It's a tool to save time. Use it or pay with your time if you willfully ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (13 children)

As an older techy I'm with you on this, having seen this ridiculous fight so many times.

Whenever a new tech comes out that gets big attention you have the Tech Companies saying everyone has to over it in Overhype.

And you have the proud luddites who talk like everyone else is dumb and they're the only ones capable of seeing the downsides of tech

"Buy an iPhone, it'll Change your life!"

"Why do I need to do anything except phone people and the battery only lasts one day! It'll never catch on"

"Buy a Satnav, it'll get you anywhere!"

"That satnav drove a woman into a lake!"

"Our AI is smart enough to run the world!"

"This is just a way to steal my words like that guy who invented cameras to steal people's souls!"

🫀

Tech was never meant to do your thinking for you. It's a tool. Learn how to use it or don't, but if you use tools right, 10,000 years of human history says that's helpful.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

That's the thing. It's a tool like any other. People who just give it a 5 word prompt and then use the raw output are doing it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

But you have the tech literacy to know that. Most non-tech people that use it do not, and just blindly trust it, because the world is not used to the concept that the computer is deceiving them.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like it's a tool for wasting time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I used the image generation of a jail broken model locally to drum up an AI mock-up of work I then paid a professional to do

This was 10000x smoother than the last time I tried this, where I irritated the artist with how much they failed to understand what I meant. The AI didn't care, I was able to get something decently close to what I had in my head, and a professional took that and made something great with it

Is that a better example?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

I don’t know how to feel about this. I need to ask ChatGPT.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

Used it once to ask it silly questions to see what the fuss is all about, never used it again and hopefully never will.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

You can always ask ChatGPT how to proceed with such trivial tasks. It is too dumb to write code but it can suggest how to get access to ChatGPT.

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