TechTakes @awful.systems David Gerard @awful.systems 1 mo. ago

How ChatGPT nearly destroyed my wedding day

pivot-to-ai.com How ChatGPT nearly destroyed my wedding day — guest post by Tracy Chou

Guest post by Tracy Chou yes, that’s elvis. he’s the coda of my very own chatgpt horror story … i share this as a cautionary tale about generative ai and the ways that it supercharges incompe…

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ChatGPT didn't nearly destroy her wedding, her lousy wedding planner did. Also whats she got against capital letters?
- Yea yea guns don't kill people, bullet impacts kill people. Dishonesty and incompetence are nothing new, but you may note that the wedding planner's unfounded confidence in ChatGPT exacerbated the problem in a novel way. Why did the planner trust the bogus information about Vegas wedding officiants? Is someone maybe presenting these LLM bots as an appropriate tool for looking up such information?
  
  Yes, even some influential people at my employer have started to peddle the idea that only “old-fashioned” people are still using Google, while all the forward-thinking people are prompting an AI. For this reason alone, I think that negative examples like this one deserve a lot more attention.
  
  Bullet impacts don't kill people, tissue deorganization and fluid loss kill people!
- *What's
  
  For the sin of making a grammar error in a post criticizing grammar you must now do ten push-ups.
"Comment whose upvotes all come from programming dot justworks dot dev dot infosec dot works" sure has become a genre of comment.
- Comments coming from .dev should default to comic sans.
  
  holy shit this sounds like an amazing plugin
- "I can safely bet that by 'all upvotes come from programming dot justworks dot dev dot infosec dot works' you actually mean 'a vast majority of upvotes come from these tech instances' even before reading your comment."
  
  "Or in other words I correctly interpreted what you meant but apparently the way you said it is a problem because I prefer to blame users rather than peddlers."
- Federating is a vector of disease
  
  And honey, I'm patient zero 😎
- How can you tell who up votes a comment?
  
  instance admins have a button for it
I can make a safe assumption before reading the article that ChatGPT didn't ruin the wedding, but rather somebody that was using ChatGPT ruined the wedding.
- "blame the person, not the tools" doesn't work when the tools' marketing team is explicitly touting said tool as a panacea for all problems. on the micro scale, sure, the wedding planner is at fault, but if you zoom out even a tiny bit it's pretty obvious what enabled them to fuck up for as long and as hard as they did
  
  what if the person in question is also a tool
- why would you say something so inane my god
  
  do you think they ever got round to reading the article, or were they spent after coming up with “hmmmm I bet chatgpt didn’t somehow prompt itself” as if that were a mystery that needed solving
- "ChatGPT is good, but only if no one in a position of authority uses it"
  
  Cool.
  
  "This hammer can't plan a wedding. Hammers are useless."
As a fellow Interesting Wedding Haver, I have to give all the credit in the world to the author for handling this with grace instead of, say, becoming a terrorist. I would have been proud to own the "Tracy did nothing wrong" tshirt.
- Credit to her for making the best of a bad situation. "We almost couldn't get legally married, so we had to bring in Elvis to officiate the paperwork after the ceremony" is going to be a top-tier wedding story for every party going forward.
  
  good thing Elvis is everywhere
Yea yea words.

Trust but verify.
- Here's a better idea - treat anything from ChatGPT as a lie, even if it offers sources
  
  But the article author wasn’t interfacing with chatgpt, she was interfacing with a human paid to help with the things the article author did not know. The wedding planner was a supposed expert in this interaction, but instead simply sent back regurgitated chatgpt slop.
  
  Is this the fault of the wedding planner? Yes. Is it the fault of chatgpt? Also yes.
  
  I think we should require professionals to disclose whether or not they use AI.
  
  Imagine you're an author and you pay an editor $3000 and all they do is run your manuscript through ChatGPT. One, they didn't provide any value because you could have done the same thing for free; and two, if they didn't disclose the use of AI, you wouldnt even know your novel had been fed into one and might be used by the AI for training.
- what does this have to do with the article

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