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fiddlenutz t1_j4tj2qs wrote

People are literally celebrating dumbing themselves down. Pretty soon this whole Metaverse crap will be too real where persona and intelligence is left up to AI while people will only know how to click a button.

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HeavensCriedBlood t1_j4tko2d wrote

Shit there are people who are too dumb to know how to click a button now.

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Deep_Charge_7749 t1_j4u1gpt wrote

I work in IT...can confirm

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korean2na t1_j4v01xi wrote

That's part of the reason I got out of IT support and am pursuing software development.

Too many people who don't care to learn the basics of using a computer and end up requiring babysitters to hold their hands/clean up their messes.

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Leather_Egg2096 t1_j4v0erg wrote

Software development involves user acceptance testing... And the users often provide the scope of the project....

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HeavensCriedBlood t1_j4v5wkj wrote

It’s not the same at all. Working the front desk means you’re dealing with the same laziness over and over again and they’re just straight up rude 80% of the time. Working with BUSINESS customers usually comes with at least a standard level of IQ and some friggin courtesy

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korean2na t1_j4v0nmv wrote

There's a difference between working with users indirectly to develop apps and working with the same users directly everyday to fix the same issues over and over again.

It's like trying to say aircraft engineers have the same interactions with people as flight attendants.

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runew0lf t1_j4tz7ye wrote

i doubt it, half the dumb shit i see is people not even knowing how to type a question into google with exactly the same kinda dumb stuff theyre asking.

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voidsrus t1_j4tzmag wrote

>celebrating dumbing themselves down

if the questions are so dumb a computer can answer them, they already weren't going to learn very fucking much by wasting their time lol

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FenixFVE t1_j4u43wa wrote

You haven't tried ChatGPT, have you?

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voidsrus t1_j4u47t7 wrote

i have for many things, it’s great, apparently most homework assignments / essay prompts are a lot less remarkable and simply aren’t written to teach very much of value

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tomvorlostriddle t1_j4ug4qc wrote

Is it possible that you have an advanced degree yourself?

Because, yes, it cannot yet do what people with advanced degrees can.

But remember how clueless we were in highschool...

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aaOzymandias t1_j4v11nh wrote

Modern schooling in a nutshell. Nobody should be surprised about that. School is to teach you to be obedient, and a useful worker.

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man-vs-spider t1_j4ulkkd wrote

They are school students, I can absolutely imagine that questions aimed at their level could be answered by ChatGPT

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tomvorlostriddle t1_j4ug0pn wrote

No no, the computers are just becoming so good that you cannot ask questions in highschool that a computer cannot answer, or otherwise you doom every student except the rare gifted one to failure

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Cyathem t1_j4ucagf wrote

Do you think you are dumber because you have Microsoft Word with spelling and grammar checking versus writing everything out by hand, on paper?

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BurntToasters t1_j4vd5ej wrote

I mean do you think youre getting smarter if you make someone/something else do your homework?

There is obviously a difference between a spell checker and an essay writer

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Cyathem t1_j4vfq7y wrote

There isn't if the essay writer only gives you the first 10% of the work, and then you have to manually improve it/check it.

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BurntToasters t1_j4vn0rv wrote

If your planning on cheating using chatgpt, who would only generate 10% of an essay? Unless your implying that writing an essay is only 10% of work and proof reading is 90% cause by that logic, if your smart enough to know the subject to improve/check it, 10% of the work shouldnt be too much of a hassle.

Also being a glorified grammer/spell checker for an ai isnt going to teach you much

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Cyathem t1_j4vpaxg wrote

Starting to write is the part that takes the longest. But, it's not the bulk of the work.

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SkyLegend1337 t1_j4tlntx wrote

It's like I've seen this before somehwre.

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NoPriorThreat t1_j4uivre wrote

calculators right? because people used to know the square root of 42.112. now they need calculator for that.

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SkyLegend1337 t1_j4v1ras wrote

I was actually talking about the movie idiocracy. I've never known the square root of that btw.

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on-ap t1_j4uhv60 wrote

this may be true, but you could also argue that its a free tutor for learning stuff. For example I used it for explaining topics covered in exams I had to write. I learned more than any website could. Because normal websites are filled with seo text and ads. What they write over hundreds of lines, chatgpt can formulate in 20. Also a plus note is that you can ask questions on those answers. No way to do that on websites. Most of the time I searched the web for the answer, I didnt even find it. So you could say that the productity increases.

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AKluthe t1_j4xsxlw wrote

Watched some video on Twitter where someone was very proud about spending X hours to make an "animated" trailer that had a ChatGPT script and AI rendering the visuals.

The script was shallow and nonsensical. The visuals didn't look cohesive, they looked like random photobashes arranged in a slideshow.

I don't know if I'm more offended with how bad it looked or that a human still thinks they deserve credit after letting machines design it all.

The future of a media driven and generated by computers looks like the weird crap that plagues YouTube Kids.

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