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Jesse

Someone in a group chat shared some ChatGPT output, and it's fascinating to me that it has all the superficial hallmarks of clear writing, but the way my brain bounces off it, it might as well be the most convoluted, tedious academic writing you can imagine.

Bullet points sailing by harmlessly like I'm Neo in the Matrix. (only, it's them dodging me)

@misc
Totally. If nothing else, GPT really serves to sharpen the distinction between form and idea.

@misc

Oooooh yeah. I have to use that for some assignments and it literally cannot understand the instructions half the time.

@Dseitz@mstdn.social @misc@mastodon.social … what assignments do you have to use it for!? What an awful requirement.

@aud @misc

The short answer is it's supposed to fill in the boilerplate and then I go clean it up and make it human readable.

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A team at work at $bigcorp actually wrote the adapters to generate a recap of your last half based on all your internal blogposts, diff descriptions, Python notebooks and thanksbot mentions

The results are so-oo-oo tedious business-speak that they weren't even a useful place to start editing from

The source of much hilarity within my (fairly immunized) team but you KNOW there are whole teams using this without an eyeblink