I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.
I am encountering more and more "helpful" people that AI-splain answers. "I heard that you asked about xyz. I don't know the answer, but I asked chatgpt for you, and it said...."
WTF? Jusk keep quiet, if I wanted a slop answer I could ask the slop-o-mat myself!
On the other hand it's an efficient way to identify people to block so they don't produce even more CO2 just to tell me they can't be bothered to interact like a human.
@thomasfuchs came to the comments to say this. I think there was a website that let you do shortlinks that animated the google search. We used it when people adked trivial questions they should just have looked up themselves.
@thomasfuchs Google has become so unusable that "let me Google that for you" in 2026 sounds less like snark and more like a kind offer to take one for the team.
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In the movie "A Soldier's Story," the black Captain Davenport visits the white camp commandant's home. The commandant's wife brings the commandant a drink on the hot day, and solicitously offers to "have someone bring you a drink" to Davenport.
Yes, she maintains propriety towards an officer reporting to her husband, but no, she absolutely will not personally hand a drink to a black man.
@tante I make my own LLM and learn it with feeds that I scrape from the net to regard that or fallback to cloud DataBase if not covered and no need for internet nor API ... yes , the prompt context is only point of failure but after correcting the thing you have your good answer ; ) Note that I only scrape public domains. Legally with a simple http request to text. The feed goes into another app the halllucination checker with 5 metrics. But if you scrape official docs and manpages you can't have any hallucination.
From there it is really the context of your prompt.
For me, the absolute worst context is a work discussion where someone says this. To me, it communicates ”I don’t know this subject, and now it’s your job to figure out if this tracks with reality.”
I’ve made it a personal policy to ignore the contents that follow those words _and_ inform the person speaking of it too.
@Lauri Kotilainen @tante No API , free self made LLM> compiled from LLama.cpp and put your model on it is what I talk about not stupid payed services that have your ip etc.
@tante I know that most use the bad AI "free" but there they are the product and object any propagation of this all. people should use a LLM on local host! People make me mad with Gemini told me as well you know, but I don't call that proper AI hygiene. And if it's for ransacking servers by abusing them there is a red line, the difference between my idea and your perception and I agree it is what happens most around us. Is not the same thing. Something a proper LLM user can not do is reach the internet. yes laugh.
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Why? Because it suggests you are not smart enough to do something? Or some other reason?
I guess it is transparent. It provides help (the best given person can give, probably), the source and instructions how to get it by yourself in the future. If you don't like it, you can just ignore the answer. Or person.
Lots of people still haven't worked out that ChatGPT isn't a search engine. I hope the people setting tonight's pub quiz have finally seen the light. It's been pretty dire the last few times. Babylonian Empire was the largest in history? How do you even hallucinate that?
in my case "asked [insert llm here]" is a quick way to loose credibility. also... "google" is a company, not a verb (being so is just marketing), the action has always been "search". i have not used google search in years... my 2 cents
putting aside the general hate for these systems, there's actually a clear breakdown in comms if that's how they're choosing to respond.
You're talking to or emailing them because you need some type of information or consensus. ChatGPT cannot generate information or provide consensus. At best it can link to information that exists but isn't somehow visible. Which is a different failing.
Like, we already have enough BS email conversation, I don't need you to use the BS machine to generate more. If you're not using ChatGPT to respond in a structured way, you're just burying other failures in BS.
"I asked chatgpt to respond because you mean so little to me I dont care if you get impersonal inaccurate information and am hoping you take the hint and kindly fuck off and die in a corner.
K?"
is what I would mean if I ever said that to anyone. Actually I would kindof like to have that opportunity.
In this particular circumstance, I don’t think you’re being very fair to the person who told you that they’d sought an answer to a question you asked, and what they found when they did so.
They even took the trouble to tell you the source of what they found, allowing you to judge the credibility of the information.
Of course, you may have thought their choice of resource was not consistent with your way of thinking, and perhaps you assumed that they follow you closely enough to know this (not an unreasonable assumption, if a bit self-centered).
At least you had the decency not to call out the person whose help you rejected and subject them to a pile-on resulting from your own mistaken reading of their reply.
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"I asked ChatGPT" sounds like "I don't even really care what I write to you."
The only response should be "Not wasting my time with someone that does not want to have an honest talk."
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in reply to tante • • •I am encountering more and more "helpful" people that AI-splain answers.
"I heard that you asked about xyz. I don't know the answer, but I asked chatgpt for you, and it said...."
WTF? Jusk keep quiet, if I wanted a slop answer I could ask the slop-o-mat myself!
Tanek Rune
in reply to tante • • •I realize that the only way I could respond to that would be: "cool, but I didn't ask chatgpt. What's your response?"
Then I could watch their brain short circuit having to internalize and paraphrase chatgpt. Or at least, they'd be leery to mention that ever again.
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in reply to Being Left Behind Enjoyer • • •We used it when people adked trivial questions they should just have looked up themselves.
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in reply to tante • • •In the movie "A Soldier's Story," the black Captain Davenport visits the white camp commandant's home. The commandant's wife brings the commandant a drink on the hot day, and solicitously offers to "have someone bring you a drink" to Davenport.
Yes, she maintains propriety towards an officer reporting to her husband, but no, she absolutely will not personally hand a drink to a black man.
Same energy.
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in reply to tante • — (0.0.0.0) •@tante I make my own LLM and learn it with feeds that I scrape from the net to regard that or fallback to cloud DataBase if not covered and no need for internet nor API ... yes , the prompt context is only point of failure but after correcting the thing you have your good answer ; )
Note that I only scrape public domains. Legally with a simple http request to text.
The feed goes into another app the halllucination checker with 5 metrics.
But if you scrape official docs and manpages you can't have any hallucination.
From there it is really the context of your prompt.
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in reply to tante • • •For me, the absolute worst context is a work discussion where someone says this. To me, it communicates ”I don’t know this subject, and now it’s your job to figure out if this tracks with reality.”
I’ve made it a personal policy to ignore the contents that follow those words _and_ inform the person speaking of it too.
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in reply to tante • • •Agreed
I explicitly note in emails that there was no use of AI/LLM’s in any way, just to make it clear
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in reply to tante • — (0.0.0.0) •People make me mad with Gemini told me as well you know, but I don't call that proper AI hygiene.
And if it's for ransacking servers by abusing them there is a red line, the difference between my idea and your perception and I agree it is what happens most around us. Is not the same thing.
Something a proper LLM user can not do is reach the internet.
yes laugh.
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in reply to tante • • •Why? Because it suggests you are not smart enough to do something? Or some other reason?
I guess it is transparent. It provides help (the best given person can give, probably), the source and instructions how to get it by yourself in the future. If you don't like it, you can just ignore the answer. Or person.
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in reply to tante • • •putting aside the general hate for these systems, there's actually a clear breakdown in comms if that's how they're choosing to respond.
You're talking to or emailing them because you need some type of information or consensus. ChatGPT cannot generate information or provide consensus. At best it can link to information that exists but isn't somehow visible. Which is a different failing.
Like, we already have enough BS email conversation, I don't need you to use the BS machine to generate more. If you're not using ChatGPT to respond in a structured way, you're just burying other failures in BS.
Which is definitely its own form of failure.
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👌 corrolary to;
"I fart in your general direction"
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in reply to tante • • •"I asked chatgpt to respond because you mean so little to me I dont care if you get impersonal inaccurate information and am hoping you take the hint and kindly fuck off and die in a corner.
K?"
is what I would mean if I ever said that to anyone. Actually I would kindof like to have that opportunity.
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in reply to tante • • •In this particular circumstance, I don’t think you’re being very fair to the person who told you that they’d sought an answer to a question you asked, and what they found when they did so.
They even took the trouble to tell you the source of what they found, allowing you to judge the credibility of the information.
Of course, you may have thought their choice of resource was not consistent with your way of thinking, and perhaps you assumed that they follow you closely enough to know this (not an unreasonable assumption, if a bit self-centered).
At least you had the decency not to call out the person whose help you rejected and subject them to a pile-on resulting from your own mistaken reading of their reply.