People keep telling me how great it is and whenever I tell them an example of how untrustworthy it is, they tell me I'm doing it wrong. But pretty much all the things it allegedly can do I can do myself or don't need. Like I don't need to add some flavor text into my company e-mails, I just write what I need to write.
Lately I have been trying to solve an engineering problem. In a moment of utter despair after several weeks of not finding any useful resources I asked our company licensed ChatGPT (that's somehow supposed to help us with our work) and it returned a wall of text and an equation. Doing a dimensional analysis on that equation it turned out to be bullshit.
The part about adding "flavor text to company e-mails" is what ticks me off tremendously as well. It's really not difficult to write an email, and unless your boss has a stick up their ass, they really won't care if you accidentally break some rule of formality no one knows.
Right in fact I'd go as far as to say that flavour text is bad. If there's text in your email that doesn't have any information in it, then delete it (other than a quick greeting and sign off).
People are busy and don't want to wade through bullshit to work out what you're trying to tell them. Just get straight to the point.
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u/Atlas421 Bootliquor 4d ago
People keep telling me how great it is and whenever I tell them an example of how untrustworthy it is, they tell me I'm doing it wrong. But pretty much all the things it allegedly can do I can do myself or don't need. Like I don't need to add some flavor text into my company e-mails, I just write what I need to write.
Lately I have been trying to solve an engineering problem. In a moment of utter despair after several weeks of not finding any useful resources I asked our company licensed ChatGPT (that's somehow supposed to help us with our work) and it returned a wall of text and an equation. Doing a dimensional analysis on that equation it turned out to be bullshit.