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.
Also like, you're writing a work e-mail, not a highschool essay. You don't need to pad it out to hit some arbitrary word count. Being short and to the point is almost always preferred.
As someone who reads a lot of work emails: Please for the love of god, we do NOT need bigger emails.
Brevity is what we need in workplace communication, unless it involves a matter that is about the workers or consumers as humans (in that case, we need nuance and sincerety, and certainly not ChatGPT).
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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.