Absolutely fucking wild to share this elsewhere, only for people to respond with “yeah, I only use ChatGPT for personal recreation!” or “according to the laws of thermodynamics I think individual queries only use up half a bottle of water each, not a whole bottle.” Y’all… - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

jeeyon.bsky.social • 229 days ago

Absolutely fucking wild to share this elsewhere, only for people to respond with “yeah, I only use ChatGPT for personal recreation!” or “according to the laws of thermodynamics I think individual queries only use up half a bottle of water each, not a whole bottle.” Y’all…

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surlygabe.bsky.social•229 days ago

oof. that's gross.

btw, Uncanny Magazine has an active account here too, if you didn't know

mhkmhk.bsky.social•229 days ago

Editor is a job already. If someone is going to chatgpt a first draft why wouldn't the editors skip the middle man and just do that themselves?

jeeyon.bsky.social•229 days ago

The thing that ChatGPT is teaching me is that it doesn’t matter what people think their environmental values or labor rights politics are; the second they get attached to a stupid, comfortable toy, they will fight for it tooth and nail, even in the face of contrary evidence or morals

mwduff.bsky.social•228 days ago

This is where I feel my filter bubbles. In writer/illustrator kidlit spaces, we're all no. No, no, no, no, no.

Higher Ed: How can we integrate it fastest?!? We don't want to be behind the curve.

It must really suck to be the academics writing about it critically. And those of use who teach...

yelmelnobrainer.bsky.social•229 days ago

In a larger group I said, as a creative in sustainability, I didn't support a game bc it uses AI art -- profiting from theft from creatives and using an energy-intensive process.

The response I got was pretty much "I don't care about the damage as long as the game is good."

Eff me, right

cat-appreciator.bsky.social•229 days ago

I’m not at all surprised - I saw similar statements when Hogwarts Legacy came out.

golvio.bsky.social•229 days ago

And that wasn’t even a good game! People were burning bridges and losing friends over completely mediocre schlock because it was attached to Big, Famous IP and they didn’t want to miss out! Everyone stopped talking about that game once the ad campaign stopped shoving it in our faces!

jikukeiseki.bsky.social•229 days ago

keffals was very funny here, it's the biggest game of the year! your favorite streamers MUST play it! (tears of the kingdom is right there)

heyitscaitlin.bsky.social•227 days ago

Honestly it sounds similar to the phenomenon where giving a desperate employee a meagre $1/h raise and a “manager” title (and the job of two people) causes them to lose solidarity with their workers because they’re still desperate, and now desperate to keep the one scrap they’ve been given in years.

mi-forest.bsky.social•228 days ago

Precisely what the techbros relied upon to justify their immoral and unethical theft of data.
#BreakUpBigTech
#RegulateAI
#SupportRealArtists

cakeshopowner.bsky.social•229 days ago

I have heard many coworkers admit to using it which made me realize how widespread it really was and I was just flabbergasted

remotecore.bsky.social•228 days ago

I shared this post on a group I'm on, in response to two members chatting about their use, and sure enough "i wouldn't say tooth and nail, but..."

ryanmc.bsky.social•229 days ago

The Venn diagram of people who defend golf courses and AI might be a near perfect circle.

pieman70.bsky.social•228 days ago

I think there are also so many big corporations in on it so they have to find use cases, and public ones. Apparently it has helped a lot in processing medical trial results but that isn’t as public or presumably mass usage enough to recoup their investment so we get crap art and duff scripts

pieman70.bsky.social•228 days ago

I do some repetitive tasks that are just varied enough that I can’t automate them with something like excel but it might be possible with a suitably advanced algorithm but it would be a niche use in a fairly niche industry so I won’t see it any time soon.

pieman70.bsky.social•228 days ago

Meanwhile I’ve got to skip google’s fictional answer to a question, have excell say Baberdeen might be what I wanted to put in the cell next to Aberdeen and see lots of uncanny people frowning into the middle distance on social media

hakirsch.bsky.social•229 days ago

why can't the stupid comfortable toy be progressive rights-giving social policy :(

kaytwi.bsky.social•228 days ago

Because if it was something comfortable we'd have had it already :) Rights-giving brings discomfort to some, by definition.

jessicapancakes.bsky.social•229 days ago

truly its out of sight out of mind. you cant see the water getting used so its too abstract for people

rhiannon87.bsky.social•229 days ago

Facing this with my workplace right now. People who would describe themselves as worried about climate change and labor rights twisting themselves into pretzels to justify using the plagiarism engine. This thing can't die soon enough.

chainslobber.bsky.social•228 days ago

When NFTs were huge, one of the main pushbacks artists had was people were burning through thousands of watts and computer parts for...pictures. People were killing the environment at unprecedented speeds and techbros replied with 'you just don't get it'. It's so so exhausting doing it again.

mementomori4950.bsky.social•229 days ago

😆

bouffon-rustique.bsky.social•229 days ago

This shit is everywhere in the localization/translation industry. Big companies like RWS are providing "training" like this one: https://www.rws.com/promptdesigntraining/ and Lionbridge too: https://www.lionbridge.com/ai-training/ that's another pressure on translators who were already knocked out by machine translation.

stripsoflight.bsky.social•228 days ago

As a translator who lost most of my translation income and can no longer live off of translation alone, I whole-heartedly agree
*goes off to scream in a pillow*

bouffon-rustique.bsky.social•228 days ago

I'm so sorry for you. I wonder how many have to cope with such damages. People worry about the artists and writers, but when it's about translation, I do not notice the same concern. We've been crushed since the rise of Deepl and Google Translation, amidst general indifference.

fraise.bsky.social•228 days ago

Time to start requiring handwritten mail-in submissions. Highly unlikely that you get any AI entries from that unless you have someone completely insane and use a 3D printer to handwrite their output.

signalthirteen.me•229 days ago

And just for the record I am happy to completely botch subtext, murder prose, and generally meander my way through a mess for much cheaper - only a few really good pizzas and some great edibles. It's why I don't write books.

grigorylukin.bsky.social•229 days ago

If the AI bubble ever bursts, and if ChatGPT and others like it disappear overnight, an awful lot of people who use those plagiarism engines for these purposes are gonna find themselves extra-useless. That'll be so fun to observe. :)

gisselescudero.bsky.social•229 days ago

Oh, let's hope that happens. The sooner the better!

mxfee.bsky.social•228 days ago

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