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Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated::undefined

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[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It is overrated. At least when they look at AI as some sort of brain crutch that redeems them from learning stuff.

My boss now believes he can "program too" because he let's ChatGPT write scripts for him that more often than not are poor bs.

He also enters chunks of our code into ChatGPT when we issue bugs or aren't finished with everything in 5 minutes as some kind of "Gotcha moment", ignoring that the solutions he then provides don't work.

Too many people see LLMs as authorities they just aren't....

[–] Spedwell@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

It bugs me how easily people (a) trust the accuracy of the output of ChatGPT, (b) feel like it's somehow safe to use output in commercial applications or to place output under their own license, as if the open issues of copyright aren't a ten-ton liability hanging over their head, and (c) feed sensitive data into ChatGPT, as if OpenAI isn't going to log that interaction and train future models on it.

I have played around a bit, but I simply am not carefree/careless or am too uptight (pick your interpretation) to use it for anything serious.