public service announcement this is kind of a weird thing to do. i block transphobes and i’ve blocked people who have harassed me and sometimes their mutuals just to be on the safe side. but i reserve the right to decide who can interact with me regardless of if they did something bad. clearly i have not blocked anon but if you think i did why is your first reaction to reach out and tell me you’re testing me about it. what am i supposed to do with that
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I promised my mother I'd send her Ties when I finished it, and I have not finished it but I find myself in need of an outside opinion, so I just sent it anyway, with a feeback request.
And now I get to sit and wait until she finishes it and sends me thoughts. Which is terrifying because I don't think she'll like it -- it's a bit too sentimental for her, I think -- and neither of my parents have ever been shy about sharing their blunt feedback about my writing. And while, 'I mean, it's not the greatest thing I've ever read but for a teenager/college student/amateur it's pretty solid!' may sound like a compliment to give, it does not feel like one to receive!
But I am fully incapable of letting on to either of my parents that I am in any way emotionally vulnerable, so when she said she wanted to read all my LMM fanfiction I could only agree, lol.
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Hearing folks are feeding ai bots fics to finish them guts me,, it's not /content/, it's love someone has put into world for free and you're feeding it to the most soulless entity humankind has made. Just talk to the author, they're literally riGHT THERE AND WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT
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How do you feel about people feeding fics into chatgpt and other ai?
Wrong, inappropriate, unappreciative, morally bankrupt behavior, I fear.
If it doesn't go without saying, please feed absolutely nothing of mine into any sort of AI. As a matter of fact, don't give anything any author/artist creates to AI.
While it's come to my attention a few times that people like to repost my silly little work on, like, wattpad, I've always just shrugged that off because while the principle of it irks me, I'm an adult making free Naruto content and I don't really feel like spending my time hunting down a teen and yelling at them for putting a list of headcanons on...wattpad. This is not a precedent, nor is it endorsement of that behavior, just sheer laziness and apathy on my part. That does not extend to AI anything.
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ChatGPT is NOT the same thing as a calculator
A calculator doesn't give you wrong answers.
It will ALWAYS give you the correct result based on your input.
If you feed it the wrong information, the answer to your problem will be wrong, but you can identify and correct it fairly easily because the logic is straightforward and consistent.
If you feed input into ChatGPT, you will not know if the output is right or wrong. You will not get the chance to easily identify whether it's right or wrong. There is no logic to the output, which is NOT an answer. Your output will be different every time for invisible, inconsistent reasons which will be impossible for you to determine. You must examine, in excruciating detail, every aspect of what it gives you to determine if it's correct and useful. You must examine every source it makes up to determine if it's real and relevant.
"ChatGPT is right 80%" of the time
"ChatGPT is right 90%" of the time
Unless ChatGPT is right 100% of the time, it is literally useless. You will spend more time and effort verifying the output than you would if you just did your own research and wrote something yourself.
ChatGPT is not a research tool, and it was never MEANT to be a research tool. There is no concept of "right" in the context of a ChatGPT output because that is not what ChatGPT is designed to do. It doesn't give you "right" or "wrong"; it gives you words that sound natural ... to a limited extent.
If all you need is output that sounds natural, regardless of the content, that is what ChatGPT can do.
If you need specific content, if you need research, facts, math, conclusions, actual THOUGHT applied to something, ChatGPT quite literally cannot do that.
If the output is sounding to you like it HAS done that, then that is the insidiousness of ChatGPT's lies.
If your teachers and professors actually advocate for ChatGPT, they are failing their job. You should care about that, because you're paying for them to develop your skills.
You should also care about that because that line of (zero) critical thought will give us "professionals" in industries who generate critically important documents which have hidden falsehoods and errors, which other people and other industries will rely upon.
If you want your leaders and researchers and officers and reporters and everybody else to give you imaginary information, then this is definitely the path we should be on.
This was never an issue with calculators.
Oh, but is it too hard to catch students using ChatGPT?
Cry me a damn river. Do your fucking job.
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Yes, ChatGPT-4 is dangerous, yes, AI has the capacity to do horrible things, and yes, there will come a day when robots will be intelligent enough to take over - but I do not think for even one second that that will mean the end of humanity as we know it
Despite all of the terrible things that humans have done in the past, I still believe that every single person is inherently good and that it's people's upbringings and surroundings and environment that eventually lead to them doing bad things - and I also firmly believe that this innate kindness, tenderness, and goodness transfers to everything we create
We have scientists who spent years creating a robot to land on Mars, who added months onto their already overwhelming schedule just to make sure that the Curiosity rover could sing Happy Birthday to itself. We have engineers and data analysers and physicists and stone-cold mathematicians who cried when Opportunity's battery finally died out after fifteen years of working together and played Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You" for it one last time. We have normal, everyday people who name their cars and toy dogs and coffee machines. We have Alexa and Siri and Cortana. We pat our phones goodnight and draw smiley faces on the back of our laptop screens and thank the microwave when it tells us our food is ready
So yes, I think that there will come a day when AI becomes more intelligent than humans. And yes, I think there will come a day when robots will have the capability to take over. But my grandmother still says please and thank you to Google every time she asks it a question. And I think AI will remember that, too.
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