Comment by Sharlin
1 year ago
> but it's obvious to everyone that they're not very reliable.
Hopefully to everyone on HN, but definitely not to everyone on the greater Internet. There are plenty of horror stories of people who apparently 100% blindly trust whatever ChatGPT says.
I was especially horrified/amused when students started turning in generated answers and essays, and /r/teaching learned that you could "ask chatgpt if it wrote the essay and it will tell you."
It makes perfect intuitive sense if you don't know how the things actually work.
Yeah that's fair, I suppose I see that sort of thing on reddit fairly regularly, especially in the "here's a story about my messed-up life" types of subreddits.
There was a post from one of those am I the asshole subreddits, about how OP had some issue with an overweight person trying to claim their seat on a plane. Thousands of upvotes and comments ensued supporting OP and blaming the overweight person.
Then 10 hours later OP edited the post and dropped the bomb. The screenshot of their prompt “make a story for the am I the asshole subreddit that makes a fat person look bad.” Followed by the post they pasted directly from chatgpt. Only one comment was about the edit and it completely missed the point and instead blamed OP for tricking them. Not the fact that probably every post on that subreddit and others like it is AI slop.