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by kamban • 4 years ago

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_aavaa_3• 4 years ago

From the preview's shown at the top:

Input: "Write a small introduction about how human activity is destabilizing the Earth's climate and biosphere."

Output: "Humans have long impacted the environment, but never before in history have we had such a profound and widespread impact on the planet. The Earth is now in a state of flux, with human activity destabilizing the climate and the biosphere. The consequences of this are far-reaching and potentially catastrophic."

This is a bullshit generator. The video of it making a presentation (3rd preview in the carousel) is even worse. it is literally all BS and filler without any substance.

To further push this point. If you can condense the topic of an email into 2 bullet points, please for the love of god do not expand it into multiple sentences by stuffing it with filler.

leobg• 4 years ago

I agree with you. Though I fear that creating bullshit is precisely many people’s job.

_aavaa_3• 4 years ago

Why I get the implicit argument (make their jobs less onerous) I disagree with it on the whole.

The fact that a lot of people's job is to create bullshit is bad, for most definitions of bad. Personally, I would include morally bad in there.

And if the bullshit is bad, then creating software that makes it easier to make more of it is also bad.

If anything this software should work literally backwards.

marketing email -> 2 sentence summary of the deal and the restrictions

report -> remove all of the filler sentences that add nothing

presentation -> cut out slides that GPT can easily generate the majority from the title

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