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[–] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 46 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 58 points 3 weeks 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?

[–] HedyL@awful.systems 21 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee -5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee -5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee -5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

you couldn’t fucking help yourself could you

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago
[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 29 points 3 weeks ago

*What's

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

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 25 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Comments coming from .dev should default to comic sans.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 17 points 3 weeks ago

holy shit this sounds like an amazing plugin

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks 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."

[–] sue_me_please@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Federating is a vector of disease

[–] Juice@midwest.social 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How can you tell who up votes a comment?

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago

instance admins have a button for it

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] ebu@awful.systems 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

what if the person in question is also a tool

[–] ebu@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

oh gods they're multiplying

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

why would you say something so inane my god

[–] self@awful.systems 21 points 3 weeks 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

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I had to take a nap after my profound thoughts.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago

wankery will do that to a man

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

Cool.

[–] null@slrpnk.net -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

good thing Elvis is everywhere

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