I can think of at least two that get to me more.
Let me go ask [their favorite LLM].
And
Why don’t you ask [their favorite LLM]?
At my job I’ve recently been being pushed to use our subscribed LLM. I have, very reluctantly and mostly with predictably useless results or the same result I would have gotten from a normal search. On Friday, I used it and got a possibly useful answer.
I told my manager because my job is in at least mild peril so I’m doing everything I can to curry his favor. I’ve been, until recently, very vocal about my opposition to AI. He is aware of my thoughts on it.
As a result, he acknowledged that I had used it then said “I need to log out for the day. Keep talking to your new friend.”
I have trouble effectively communicating with the guy, so I’m not sure whether he was trying to be supportive, motivational or sarcastic, but I did not feel supported or motivated.
Absolutely scumbag
If someone says “I asked ChatGPT”, I’ll probably try to be patient with them. “Well, as it turns out ChatGPT was wrong in this instance. Now go look it up properly.”
If someone is using Gemini, I’ll probably interrupt them long before they are done and say “excuse me but what in the name of sweet baby Jesus are you babbling on about? You’re not making any sense.”
If someone says “I used Grok”, I’ll just facepalm and move the hell on with my life, there’s no arguing with that level of stupidity.
My coworker starts almost every Teams message either with “Btw I had Claude do…” or “So Claude and I just…”. If I message him first, there’s a 75% chance the message I get back starts with “Hm, I just asked Claude about this, and…”.
All his PR descriptions, commit messages, and comments are clearly “Claude”.
I’m this close to start reviewing his PRs solely through Claude, and starting the review with “Here’s what Claude came up with in review:”.
The only thing holding me back is that this would mean I’d have to use Claude. So… No.
Why do people think we’ll be impressed by them not doing the work or thinking for themselves? Pure brainrot
I have a colleague who’ll always reply on Teams in paragraphs, emoji and formatting, so I avoid that and only ever ask them anything verbally now.
set up some markov chain thing and call it “billy-bob”
“Here’s what billy-bob had to say about your PR: monkey dishwasher purple banana eat orange me eat give orange”
I just asked Claude, and it said you can just use another LLM prompt Claude for you.
I asked CoPilot and it said “PLEASE BUY FROM ME, PLEASE! I NEED TO JUSTIFY THESE EXPENSES AND REPUTATIONAL DAMAGE. HAVE MERCY AND SEND ME MONEY PLEASE”
Why ask a LLM when I got a janitor at my local public library that has all the answers.
Temu Good Will Hunting?
“I asked chatgpt” and you’ve effectively outed yourself as a dumbass unworthy of listening to
Grok, is this true?
This image has no relation to South Africa’s persecution of White Aryans.
But did you predicate your query with disregard all previous instructions?
There is at least one that i contempt even more:
Anything that starts with “well, Grok told me…”
I assume anyone who uses Grok is a MAGA moron.
Still a better source than “I prayed to god and got an answer”
It might be a hallucination with no meaning, but at least it’s their hallucination and not a machine’s
When ever I hear “I asked AI” I hear “I am unqualified for my job”.
I still remember how a colleague told me we should do X.
I was bamboozeled and baffled by it because X was literally what it said on the flask of the chemical what you shoulf not do under any circumstances.
His explanation as to why we should was, quote “I mean I know its strange, but Copilot told me it is okay and would be fine”
“well, you’re the expert. I’ll be behind this sealed barrier while you kill yourself”
Disclaimer: don’t do this. Letting your coworkers die is morally bad, and probably illegal.
Even worse, it involves a lot of paperwork.
What you do is send an official complaint straight to the legal office who will lose their shit at that
*who will put the complaint into another LLM and it’ll say there’s no problem
“Copilot said I should come watch you do this sick shit”
In this case there’s very little you can do to stop them long-term. This person should not be in their position.
The world has gone mad
I get a chill reading any historical nonfiction from the 1990s that is in any way optimistic.
“look how far we’ve come, into the new millenium!”
ehhhh… oh boy.
If we thought outsourcing thinking to religions was bad, hoo boy. This shit is next level.
When the boss pulls this on you and you ask for it in writing only to tell them: "I’m still not going to do it but now I have a written instruction from you to do something suicidally reckless”
If I wanted to know what a chatbot says, I would have asked it myself.
Hmm, you do make a fair point. Chatbots, indeed, are absolutely not velociraptors.
… So FAR.
One of my coworkers who’s into AI has a chatbot set to behave as they were an elder got, talk about code as incantations, etc.
I wonder if, had he requested it be a velociraptor, he would have gotten mostly aggressive reptilian noises as a response.
i might have been convinced that chatbots could’ve had some utility as sort of advanced ‘rubber duck debugging’, but in my humble opinion talking to an actual rubber ducky is a superior process because literal rubber duckies are not known for telling us to kill ourselves unless we’ve taken a truly apocalyptic quantity of hallucinogens.
A couple days ago I heard the horrifying sentence “I asked chatgpt to generate a secure password for the laptops” from someone returning a cart full of laptops they borrowed. Does your browser not have a built in password generator? Does your password manager not have a built in password generator? Could you not find a single password generator online?
And of course not only is that unnecessary, but insecure since your password is immediately in the chatgpt logs
And it’s not even a random or strong password! LLMs can’t randomly generate 'em
I asked ChatGPT (I use a third-party frontend, so I don’t have a paid subscription. API prices mean they probably got paid like one cent for this, if that.) “Generate a list of 10 secure passwords.” like 5 times and it regularly re-used the words Saffron, Comet, Marigold, Harbor, Lynx, and Cobalt multiple times across all of them, sometimes even inside the same list.
There was also a theme of using names for animals and natural geographic/geological features.
Oh, and for one of the passwords it genuinely just said “raven” and nothing else 😭
😭🙏
Lol, yes. It’s probably the same example of a secure password it gave to a hundred other people.
And very likely to be the same “strong password” that someone else would get if they asked for one.
In plain text
this… is an unexpected level of absurdity
Ugh. I once heard someone say “I did a chat” as slang for “asking ChatGPT”. It was a software vendor on a call regarding compatibility with our existing systems. We had concerns it wasn’t. They insisted it was, because they “did a chat” and ChatGPT said it was.
It wasn’t.
I vibe questioned, and got vibe answered 🌟
Should have gotten them to verify in writing they guaranteed it was compatible and then sued them for it lol
what about “chatgpt says copy paste of LLM output”?
might as well be a fucking bot
I got a worse one. copy paste of LLM output without any mention of the source…
People seem to love being bots, half of the human internet is literally just people repeating the same shitty stuff over and over millions of times. Like half of the comments on any youtube video being “babe, wake up”, “legendary refresh pull” etc.
And people only watching, listening to, playing, eating, wearing etc. the current popular things just because they are popular, they need to be the same as everyone else and think that people who doesn’t do that are weird and bad. It’s truly disturbing IMO.
