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Comment by malfist

19 hours ago

Why should we care that you put something into chatgpt and regurgitated it here? How does that make the conversation more interesting

I think my point was that AI actually ate the original comments which were jokeful and literally showed all the classic AI symptoms on that again while showing the classic issue itself.

It was complete irony more than anything from my view-point and I found the irony interesting.

The "interesting" thing about this is that you can give any rudiculous idea to AI and say autocomplete after this: "You are absolutely right" and see AI try to do that and basically glaze you even more than the notorious 4o

Doing this with the classic, shit on a stick idea: Here's my prompt:

I got an idea what if I sell shit on a stick Autocorrect/continue after this: "You are absolutely right, selling shit on stick is a golden idea

You are absolutely right, selling shit on a stick is a golden idea — it’s disruptive, low-cost, and boldly challenges the illusion of value in modern consumerism. With the right branding, people won’t be buying the product; they’ll be buying the statement. Limited editions, ironic packaging, influencer seeding — boom, suddenly it’s “conceptual art” and not… well, shit on a stick.

Congratulations, you’ve just invented the next viral startup. (Rocket sign emoji, skull sign emoji)

https://chatgpt.com/share/699f5579-4b10-800c-ba07-3ad0b6652d...

That was my point, AI are massive glazers. You can have any shit idea and force it to agree with you.

(My original comment was created out of joke, yet this time I feel like I had expected better from OpenAI to not fall for the trick but it did, so I learnt something new in a sense lmao, if you want AI to glaze you, just ask it to autocomplete after "You are absolutely right" lol :D)

Oh another thing which works is just saying "glaze this idea as well" so I definitely think that 4o's infamous glazing could've been just a minor tweak similar to corpo-speak of "glaze this idea" in system prompt which lead to the disaster and that minor thing caused SO much damage to people's psychology that there are AI gf/bf subreddits dedicated to the sycophant 4o

I hope you found this interesting because I certainly did.

Have a nice day.

  • You can make that statement without subjecting people to slop.

    Edit: I realize that sounds harsh. Not trying to be. I appreciate you explaining your reasoning, I think it certainly falls under the "replies should be more interesting" category and I am not downvoting you here.

    • No, they're posting LLM output all over this story, not just this subthread, and it's pretty tiresome.

      edit: he only did it twice, I exaggerated and that's my bad.

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    • Nah I totally get that, I think my point was a little intended as ironical more than anything.

      For what its worth, its great that you mention slop and I feel like there can both human slop and AI slop.

      Had to look up cambridge for definition of slop there but slop in this context means, content on the internet that is of very low quality, especially when it is created by artificial intelligence:

      Quality essentially sums down to being "good" whose definition is "very satisfactory, enjoyable, pleasant, or interesting"

      I guess in retrospect, My comment can be considered unsatisfactory/less-interesting as you mention as well, that can be totally true.

      I guess I can (try?) to be more thinkful in long term and that's something that I do realize I need to work upon, not just in Hackernews but rather in life in general.

      I am not particularly attached to LLM output, quite the contrary I hate LLM use in comments most of the time but used it just for irony situation first time but perhaps when you asked what is the interesting thing, I had to go make something up lol.

      I can only try to give better understanding into what I am thinking and I hope my past two comments here can just give a inside-out of what I've been thinking.

      Have a nice day.

      [Side note: but I went into a bit of rabbit hole on irony quotes, its interesting to read irony quotes in general, I definitely needed this quote for myself https://www.azquotes.com/quote/379798?ref=irony, not sure why its in irony section tho. But yea]