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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It cost me my job (partially). My old boss swallowed the AI pill hard and wanted everything we did to go through GPT. It was ridiculous and made it so things that would normally take me 30 seconds now took 5-10 minutes of "prompt engineering". I went along with it for a while but after a few weeks I gave up and stopped using it. When boss asked why I told her it was a waste of time and disingenuous to our customers to have GPT sanitize everything. I continued to refuse to use it (it was optional) and my work never suffered. In fact some of our customers specifically started going through me because they couldn't stand dealing with the obvious AI slop my manager was shoveling down their throat. This pissed off my manager hard core but she couldn't really say anything without admitting she may be wrong about GPT, so she just ostracized me and then fired me a few months later for "attitude problems".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

im sorry.

managers tend to be useless fucking idiots.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Curious - what type of job was this? Like, how was AI used to interact with your customers?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It was just a small e-commerce store. Online sales and shipping. The boss wanted me to run emails i would send to vendors through gpt and any responses for customer complaints were put through GPT. We also had a chat function on our site for asking questions and what not and the boss wanted us to copy the customers' chat into gpt, get a response, rewrite if necessary, and then paste GPT's response into our chat. It was so ass backwards I just refused to do it. Not to mention it made the response times super high, so customers were just leaving rather than wait (which of course was always the employees fault).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

That sounds as asinine as you seem to think it was. Damn dude. What a dumb way to do things. You're better off without that stupidity in your life