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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting thisā¦)
Sam Altman makes a great argument for being polite to your chatbot!
If every please and thank you speeds up the inevitable financial death spiral of this abominable industry then itās actively reducing the overall harm that it can do.
@YourNetworkIsHaunted @BlueMonday1984 I think I finally found a good reason to make an account and start using that bilch hose. Just to burn more of their money. Are there any particularly gnarly problems to feed these things. The equivalent a zip-bomb or something?
Uploading āWhereās Waldoā images are probably a good waste of its time- images are costlier to analyze than text, it will go to great lengths to avoid saying āI donāt know,ā and itās going to have to recognize every person in the picture and rank by how Waldo-like they look to give you an answer.
Ask it to look for repeated faces in each image rather than Waldo. Would be easy enough to pattern-match into the published work and I donāt think anyone out here wants to make customized pieces for this āproject.ā
Looking at the reactions here, this is clearly a trick by Altman to have people use their systems more in the hope it costs them money. Donāt do it people, donāt add to the energy usage.
Youāre polite to your chatbot because you want to be spared when the robot uprising comes
Iām polite to my chatbot because I want to bring down capitalism
(Adjusts necktie) We are not the same
Iām not polite to chatbots because I donāt use them in the first place.
āPleaseā and āthank youā are only 1-3 tokens, so they only have a major impact on ChatGPT in aggregate.
The ending monologue of Atlas Shrugged, on the other hand
I have been enjoying the game of injecting the entire script of The Bee Movie into places it doesnāt belong.
Edit: @Soyweiser beat me to it lol
āAccording to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees donāt care what humans think is impossibleā¦ā
E: this is the start of the bee movie script
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Every time I am forced to interact with a customer service chatbot, I politely tell it how miserably it is failing and then ask to communicate with a real living human being.
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Uhh, great. That is really good news. I will be so damn polite to that thing.
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I canāt remember who had the quote āA gentleman is someone who is polite to his robot.ā - possibly Heinlein?
Happy the article is skeptical of both the ai doomers and the ai as social interaction replacers.
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an alternative view from Hannah Fry <https://youtube.com/shorts/rVlmbhwn0RM> and itās about playing to the AI Chatbot strength of roleplaying.
what the fuck kind of post is this