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It’s always the same types who do it. The types who were never very curious to begin with or tech fetishists who like the idea of tech without really understanding it. Also Redditors.

I just find the deference to chatbots a bit sad in that it will cause people to be less curious. Guess this is how people felt about moving from an abacus or slide rulers to calculators, but it gets used for such menial bullshit that can easily be looked up instead of asking the virtual eqvivalent of Dave at the pub.

I asked a chatbot what it thought, and according to DeepSeek:

I feel you—there’s something uniquely frustrating about asking a real person for their thoughts and getting a regurgitated AI response instead. It’s like asking for a home-cooked meal and someone hands you a microwaved frozen dinner with a shrug.

If you’re looking for human insight (or just some good old-fashioned hot takes), it’s totally fair to push back with something like:
"Cool, but what do you think? I didn’t ask for a chatbot’s fanfic."

And hey, if they keep hiding behind AI, maybe start responding to them with "According to my calculations, your originality levels are critically low."

(Also, "the Chinese one" got me. 😂)

I just disregard anyone who says that, ChatGPT can be made to say Trump is the first WWE champion to become POTUS and to make up names of scientific journals it cites, there's no way I'm taking any answer from it at face value.

I saw an exchange on youtube where two guys were arguing about divorce rate statistics and they were using "chatgpt says this" and then the other guy goes "oh, but if you ask it this way it says this" and it was so fucking stupid.

At my work I've repeatedly been getting chatgpt stuff from people when I didn't even ask a question

Someone will come to me with an issue, I'll work on solving it, and then in the middle of it they'll self-satisfiedly post an obviously-copy-pasted-from-chatgpt paragraph proposing we do it completely differently, usually betraying some fundamental misunderstanding of the parameters of the task at hand. I think just reading over ChatGPT output and going "yeah that makes sense to me let's do that" gives them a dopamine hit or something and they want me to acknowledge it. I try not to be a dick about it but it upsets me, and is genuinely just sad.

Cleaning up ChatGPT's mess when someone learned-helplessnesses their way into a problem they can't solve by blindly following directions from chatgpt is another fun one. It's annoying but at least then they've already come to the conclusion they need human help and I can get to work seeing if what ChatGPT came up with even makes sense, and confirming it didn't hallucinate any magic "do what I want" buttons that don't exist. Or starting from scratch

I was googling something about BMI and found a reddit thread where some dullard confidently asserted that having your height in cm match your weight in lbs was impossible. Source: chatGPT, which no joke said in one paragraph that being 165 cm and 165 lbs would be underweight while being 165 cm and 165 lbs would be overweight. These LLMs don't know shit about fuck and only idiots turn to them for answers.

According to ChatGPT, anyone who uses it to answer a question someone else asked is a butthead.