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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 30 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

My manager asked ChatGPT about a difficult situation I was involved in for some advice to know of she was right or wrong to tell me I lacked judgement.

She basically asked an AI for her own judgement.

Who's lacking judgement exactly?

Turns out she was wrong.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

What's even worse: those chatbots generally agree with the user. Deferring judgement like that sure is one way to do what you wanted to do anyway.

[–] TRBoom@lemmy.zip 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

My previous boss (the CIO) began using AI back in May of last year in a desperate attempt to not get fired. He had spearheaded a shift to a SaaS product that ended up costing us 200x more than our in house solution and was in hot water for that. Additionally a new COO was about to be hired who was previously a CIO and might figure out that he didn't really know anything.

Since he had basically bullshitted his way into the position I think he turned to a bullshit engine to assist him in saving himself. Ultimately his efforts were futile and he was let go.

The new COO appears to be just as enthralled to AI... She was in my office the other day asking me questions about our MDM, feeding my answers into copilot, and then asking my follow up questions that it gave her.

Beautiful, maybe I should get an mba.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago

the problem with that is having to turn off your brain, which most of us can't do

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Humanity could actually have reached it's pinnacle in the recent years. Now it's just gonna go downside, with people unable to accomplish to most basic logical operations without ai.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

This works well with my AI-as-shackles theory. I’m assuming the rich will use AI to enslave us, and this article makes that scenario seem much easier for them to achieve.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Something about hegels dialectic of the slave in there. If you offload all your tasks and responsibilities onto a slave then you become dependent on that slave so the slave now has a sort of power over you

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

lol as if we aren't already enslaved to the rich in this last stage capitalist hellhole

[–] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 2 points 16 hours ago

Sorry I couldn't read this comment, I was busy binging a netflix series / doomscrolling twitter or facebook / shopping on amazon or temu / wallowing in depression due to a lack of hobbies, nightlife, affordable housing and other necessities / getting bombed by the Russians / ... ah, who am I kidding, I'm just illiterate 🤷

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 14 hours ago

the shackles are already in the heads of the people. if you can't think for yourself then llm isnt much different from your regular propaganda from tv or papers, except it functions better.

Llm is tool for control.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 14 hours ago

dude i think the shackles might be having to work to not die