this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
656 points (97.4% liked)

People Twitter

7238 readers
1183 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

  1. Mark NSFW content.
  2. No doxxing people.
  3. Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
  4. No bullying or international politcs
  5. Be excellent to each other.
  6. Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major figure or a politician.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My gf knows nothing about math. And has to learn a bit. I'm a software engineer so of course I offered to teach her.

Gave her some exercises to do. Because she prefers to do them alone without help. And after 30 minutes she's like "can you help me decipher what chatgpt told me?".

Of course, what chatgpt told her was utter garbage. Bruh, I'm right here and I'm teaching you, just ask me for help, not a word predictor.

I'm actually impressed how bad chatgpt answered, this was low high school level maths/physics. The bot is advertised as if it were going to leave me without a job in the next year.

[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Your GF secretly works for openAI. You're not teaching her, she's getting you to train chatGPT :O

[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can AI open a jar? Can AI kill a spider?

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 130 points 2 days ago (43 children)

it only takes a couple times of getting a made-up bullshit answer from chatgpt to learn your lesson of just skip asking chatgpt anything altogether

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I stopped using it when I asked who I was and then it said I was a prolific author then proceeded to name various books I absolutely did not write.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago

I just read "The Autobiography of QueenHawlSera"!
Have I been duped?

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But chatgpt always gives such great answers on topics I know nothing at all about!

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I was using it to blow through an online math course I'd ultimately decided I didn't need but didn't want to drop. One step of a problem I had it solve involved finding the square root of something; it spat out a number that was kind of close, but functionally unusable. I told it it made a mistake three times and it gave a different number each time. When I finally gave it the right answer and asked, "are you running a calculation or just making up a number" it said that if I logged in, it would use real time calculations. Logged in on a different device, asked the same question, it again made up a number, but when I pointed it out, it corrected itself on the first try. Very janky.

[–] stratoscaster@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ChatGPT doesn't actually do calculations. It can generate code that will actually calculate the answer, or provide a formula, but ChatGPT cannot do math.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I feel like a lot of people in this community underestimate the average person's willingness to trust an AI. Over the past few months, every time I've seen a coworker ask something and search it up, I have never seen them click on a website to view the answer. They'll always take what the AI summary tells them at face value

Which is very scary

load more comments (39 replies)
[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago

First they came for my mansplaining and I said nothing...

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I would have asked, "And what exactly does ChatGPT think it is?" Because there's a pretty good chance that it made up a definition that is 100% bullshit.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 62 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Shorting: Like investing but you can lose more than you put in.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Investing: Theoretically infinite gain, limited loss

Shorting: Limited gain, theoretically infinite loss

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago

Shorting: investing but you take a loan to do it and you bet on things failing.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (9 children)

So is a lot of types of investing, so that's really not a good definition, and just like investing if you know what you are doing you can come out way ahead with an almost guarantee with shorting

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Investing in any single thing is gambling in my book.

Sure, it can pay off, but it can go badly too, and "knowing what you're doing" is what everyone thinks they're doing, right up to the point where they don't.

Although shorting Tesla might not be a bad plan right about now. Seeing Trump and Musk destroy each other is what I live for.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Shorting tesla might not seem a bad plan for about a decade now, the market can remain illogical longer than the premiums you pay on the short position.

Well you can also have "know how" from other things, for example years ago I was following a lot of PC hardware news and for me it was sure as fuck that both AMD and Nvidia will only increase for a while, Ryzen was starting to go strong and Intel was not putting up competition, and the then crypto market nicely transitioned into AI for keeping demand for Nvidia products high af.

Anyone who knew someone from the boeing factories or had knowledge of what went on in that company likely should have known to short the shit out of the boeing stock the moment the first 787 Max went down.

Really the stock market involves a lot of paying attention to stuff and then trying to to bet on the more likely stuff, it's never a guarantee is it.

Right now I am mostly paying attention to the car market, there I would say shorting US car manufacturers is a decent bet, Nissan if the stock is still low is a decent investment target, I don't think they will go under and they have some nice cars at good prices.

Stellantis went through a bit of turbulence, but they are coming out with some good stuff now, so they could see some upswing.

But really I haven't even looked at the stock prices so this might be all stupid shit.

If you don't want to gamble just invest in ETFs every month and you will be fine.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Correct me of im wrong. But cant you lose an infinite amount if the stock rockets up and the share owners comes asking their shares back?...

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Well, if it went up an infinite amount, then yes. In reality, that's pretty unlikely

[–] ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's never really "infinite" in practice. What it really means is that the amount you can lose isn't bound by the money you put into the trade. If you buy a stock normally, you can only lose up to the amount of money you used to buy it. With shorting, you can lose 5x, 10x, 20x the amount of money if things go wrong for you.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Yes you can

load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Shorting: cutting your jeans into shorts

[–] q181c@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's jorting. You have bejorted yourself.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shorting is when you plug your fork into an electrical outlet.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

You're wasting computation time by saying please to your boyfriend. Alman said it and he has a boyfriend.

[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

I had to explain this to my girlfriend, I still have a job

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If ai can start pirating old movies then it's curtains for me brotherzz 😞

[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

"Hey Alexa, add Rick and Morty to Sonarr and download the first season for me"

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

That's when you turn it around and ask her about how to deal with some social situation. Oh nvm, chatgpt gave me a great idea

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

We are all redundant now. How does it feel living what I lived through mg entire life?

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well our society is falling apart as we barrel towards another great war with the most certainly a expectation that Yankeeland is gonna drop a nuke on a civilian population. There will be conscripts and consequences. Oh yeah let's not forget arresting the homeless and giving them felonies and throwing them into for profit prisons. Lets not forget the hooverviles. But sure you're a top G with your illgotten gains with a currency that is rapidly declining. What a limp dick techchoad dum dumb culture. Drinking from a poisoned well were the bully gets you to punch yourself in your own face and you celebrate this. We celebrate this world of the lowest common denominator. We eat our own. This is a empty vessel of lesser things. A pit of despair... A whoreable land that is hostile to real innovation and creativity. We all are nothing but dildos for the capitalist. It would be better to be closer to the blast zone. The rich have bunkers and we all will starve to death. Capitalism is a death cult and shorting is gambling with your children's future. Only the most idiotic will replicate. This seems now a activity for the most supremely vain, non mathmatical and selfish. Thank gawd all men die.

[–] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

This is a very intense, and worryingly doomer response to someone vaguely mentioning the concept of short selling

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

If you could just go outside and talk to some friends, that'd massively improve your situation. Just give small talk to somebody. Somebody real. They'll cheer you up. You could also find a homeless shelter to volunteer at.

I mean, I understand things are awful, with global warming and forced deportations, but this lachrymose screed isn't what life is like. There are countless people all over the world who are creative, kind, and full of hope, and we are merely beset by great problems.

[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

People do know they could have just googled things and looked at the top results before right? Even with all the enshitification it's gone through it will still usually yield something useful for any topic that isn't super niche. Like if I search "shorting" the top 3 results are articles from Wikipedia, Investorpedia, (don't know enough about it to know if it's reliable) and Charles Schwab, a source with a conflict of interest since they probably sell that service, but they're probably at least going to explain why you'd want to buy it from them, and then as a bonus the 4th result is an ELI5 Reddit thread, which while probably not the most reliable source of info, is probably about on the same level as randomly asking your SO about a topic which they're not an expert in.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›