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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

ChatGPT didn't nearly destroy her wedding, her lousy wedding planner did. Also whats she got against capital letters?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yea yea guns don't kill people, bullet impacts kill people. Dishonesty and incompetence are nothing new, but you may note that the wedding planner's unfounded confidence in ChatGPT exacerbated the problem in a novel way. Why did the planner trust the bogus information about Vegas wedding officiants? Is someone maybe presenting these LLM bots as an appropriate tool for looking up such information?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Yes, even some influential people at my employer have started to peddle the idea that only “old-fashioned” people are still using Google, while all the forward-thinking people are prompting an AI. For this reason alone, I think that negative examples like this one deserve a lot more attention.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Bullet impacts don't kill people, tissue deorganization and fluid loss kill people!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's clearly a joke walking the first phrase they said a bit further, to an absurdly literal point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

you couldn’t fucking help yourself could you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

*What's

For the sin of making a grammar error in a post criticizing grammar you must now do ten push-ups.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"Comment whose upvotes all come from programming dot justworks dot dev dot infosec dot works" sure has become a genre of comment.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Comments coming from .dev should default to comic sans.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

holy shit this sounds like an amazing plugin

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"I can safely bet that by 'all upvotes come from programming dot justworks dot dev dot infosec dot works' you actually mean 'a vast majority of upvotes come from these tech instances' even before reading your comment."

"Or in other words I correctly interpreted what you meant but apparently the way you said it is a problem because I prefer to blame users rather than peddlers."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Federating is a vector of disease

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

How can you tell who up votes a comment?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

instance admins have a button for it

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I can make a safe assumption before reading the article that ChatGPT didn't ruin the wedding, but rather somebody that was using ChatGPT ruined the wedding.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"blame the person, not the tools" doesn't work when the tools' marketing team is explicitly touting said tool as a panacea for all problems. on the micro scale, sure, the wedding planner is at fault, but if you zoom out even a tiny bit it's pretty obvious what enabled them to fuck up for as long and as hard as they did

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

what if the person in question is also a tool

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

oh gods they're multiplying

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

why would you say something so inane my god

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

do you think they ever got round to reading the article, or were they spent after coming up with “hmmmm I bet chatgpt didn’t somehow prompt itself” as if that were a mystery that needed solving

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had to take a nap after my profound thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

wankery will do that to a man

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"ChatGPT is good, but only if no one in a position of authority uses it"

Cool.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"This hammer can't plan a wedding. Hammers are useless."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

almost all of your posts are exactly this worthless and exhausting and that’s fucking incredible

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

As a fellow Interesting Wedding Haver, I have to give all the credit in the world to the author for handling this with grace instead of, say, becoming a terrorist. I would have been proud to own the "Tracy did nothing wrong" tshirt.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Credit to her for making the best of a bad situation. "We almost couldn't get legally married, so we had to bring in Elvis to officiate the paperwork after the ceremony" is going to be a top-tier wedding story for every party going forward.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

good thing Elvis is everywhere

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

As long as music is alive, so is The King. A-thank you. Thank you very much.