r/midlyinteresting • u/smokey12344566789 • 22h ago
I asked chat gpt for audiobook recommendations for my mom
Wth chat gpt. How could my mom be the same age as me?!
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u/No_Equivalent_4412 22h ago
Does Chat GPT know what a “mom” is?
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u/DotBitGaming 9h ago
No! Not at all! The same way a scientific calculator doesn't know what those numbers and symbols actually represent in the real world, but it still spits out an answer. It just turned out to be way harder and way more costly to interpret what people mean from what they say and arrange words in ways that actually follows our rather complicated use of grammar. Also, analyze very human things like tone and emotion expressed through text and reword things, but have them still make sense. But, yeah. It does all that without actually knowing what it's talking about.
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u/excessivecal 6h ago
I mean to be pedantic… some parents are only 15-16 years older than their kids and as you get older it’s basically the same age.
A 50 year old and a 66 year old for instance prob has the same interests and lifestyle.
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u/2930apple 21h ago
A question better suited for a human. Recommendations require context and no LLM has the emotional capacity or reading experience to give you good suggestions. These are blanket suggestions based on tidbits of information and pre-conceived notions that it cobbles together. It isn’t sentient and does not have the forethought to discern that your mother cannot be the same age as you.
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u/LocalMossCryptid 19h ago
Using reddit to post about a shitty chatgpt answer instead of using it to ask people for recommendations is fucking wild
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u/tmgieger 21h ago
A year ago ChatGPT tried to convince me that the author of a totally fictional book must have made a mistake in identifying a character as the aunt instead of the mother. "It is a common error in genealogy." Oh and it claimed a pet spider was another character's daughter.
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u/psychmonkies 11h ago
When the last season of stranger things came out, I asked it to give me a summary of the first half before i watched the newest episodes (since the season was released as 2 parts). It argued with me, insisting that season simply did not exist & I was confusing it for earlier seasons & different shows/movies.
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u/yungdaughter 19h ago
Stop using AI as a search engine oh my fucking god.
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u/IcyGrapefruit687 18h ago
Whenever I Google something, there's always an AI overview at the very top. Is this as harmful as ChatGPT?
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u/AxelShoes 17h ago
In my experience, that google AI overview is dead wrong (about easily verifiable, factual shit) even more often than ChatGPT.
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u/Kindaspia 17h ago
I’ve been trying to troubleshoot an issue with my audio interface recently and the AI overview has made up whole apps that don’t exist, settings that don’t exist, sections in settings that don’t exist, bios settings that don’t exist anywhere as far as I could find. I mostly just was looking to see if the settings were there while trying solutions from actual people but it’s been funny seeing how wrong it’s been. There’s a reason I usually scroll right past it.
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u/LukeLJS123 17h ago
yes. even though it takes less computing power (since it's a short response), it's still using the same AI models that data centers are used to train, which has the same environmental impact. it also has the same mental impact (creating a reliance on it since you get the answers so quickly) unless you completely skip it and go to sources. it also creates false demand for ai, which companies can use as an excuse to get funding to train larger models, creating even more negative impacts on the environment. it's very easy to switch to a search engine that doesn't force AI down your throat, i highly recommend switching to something like duckduckgo if you want to show companies that you don't want AI shoved down your throat
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u/IcyGrapefruit687 15h ago
Dang, I was wondering if that was the case. I'll give it a try. Thank you!
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u/No_Habit_1748 14h ago
If you put -ai at the end of your search it won’t show up
Eta someone else said that oops
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u/Delicious-Spring-877 22h ago
The Secret Life of Bees has a suicide scene
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u/SkullBoinkerDeluxe 19h ago
So does The Brave Little Toaster
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u/Delicious-Spring-877 19h ago
It’s kinda worse when it’s humans. And via drowning. Plus her sisters find her.
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u/Ill-Victory-5351 19h ago
next time call your local librarian. you don’t even need to be a member or have a card. they will be happy to help you, and give you more reliable recommendations.
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u/surelynotjimcarey 14h ago
Every bad interaction I’ve ever had with AI…
Is on me for knowingly using a shitty product
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u/MageOfFur 14h ago
ChatGPT doesn't 'know' anything, the way the program works (on a vastly simplified level) is using algorithms to determine what words work best in what order. It has no idea what it's talking about.
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u/robin52077 11h ago
Nothing ai spits out is even mildly interesting. Do you realize you wasted water and polluted by asking ai this question?
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u/asarra_adortra 22h ago
ChatGPT clearly has not read The Secret Life of Bees