Comment by hx8

6 months ago

It depends on if they are just repeating things without understanding, or if they have understanding. My issue is that people that say "I asked gpt" is that they often do not have any understanding themselves.

Copy and pasting from ChatGPT has the same consequences as copying and pasting from StackOverflow, which is to say you're now on the hook supporting code in production that you don't understand.

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tough  6 months ago

We cannot blame the tools for how they are used by those yielding them.

I can use ChatGPT to teach me and understand a topic or i can use it to give me an answer and not double check and just copy paste.

Just shows off how much you care about the topic at hand, no?

  • theamk  6 months ago

    If you used ChatGPT to teach you the topic, you'd write your own words.

    Starting the answer with "I asked ChatGPT and it said..." almost 100% means the poster did not double-check.

    (This is the same with other systems: If you say, "According to Google...", then you are admitting you don't know much about this topic. This can occasionally be useful, but most of the time it's just annoying...)

  • multjoy  6 months ago

    How do you know that ChatGPT is teaching you about the topic? It doesn't know what is right or what is wrong.

    • tough  6 months ago

      It can consult any sources about any topic, ChatGPT is as good at teaching as the pupil's capabilities to ask the right questions, if you ask me

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  • misnome  6 months ago

    We can absolutely blame the people selling and marketing those tools.

    • tough  6 months ago

      Yeah, marketing always seemed to me like a misnomer or doublespeak for legal lies.

      All marketing departments are trying to manipulate you to buy their thing, it should be illegal.

      But just testing out this new stuff and seeing what's useful for you (or not) is usually the way