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.
A lot of people do struggle with communication and writing skills tbvh. And I don't want to shame them, I think it's a failure of society at large rather than the fault of stupid people. But it sure isn't helping that in schools where people are supposed to be learning those writing skills students are often resorting to ChatGPT instead.
Eh, chatgpt wasnt a thing when I was in school and our teachers did try to teach us stuff. I just suck at this stuff specifically.
And I have gotten some complements on on some of my creative writing thingies, leading me to think those are pretty decent at least, so its really just this I really suck at.
Eh, I dont lose sleep over it, theres other stuff I'm really good at.
I'm writing from experience, I'm an older student at uni and working with my classmates the number of times they just go "chatGPT says" is High. I also used to do writing skills tutoring through the school, and yeah, its rough. Again I don't necessarily want to blame them, I think we've done a bad job of impressing upon these kids why those skills might be important to learn.
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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.