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nice_byte | 1 month ago

relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF90rstZQ

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bigiain|1 month ago

Came to post that.

I like her meta observation, that using ChatGPT for 2 years rots your brain so badly you somehow think it's a good idea to write an article like this, with your real name and professional/academic reputation attached to it, and get it published somewhere as high profile as Nature.

Someone on my Mastodon field commented that if they'd done that "you wouldn't be able to torture it out of me" and that they'd never admit it to anyone.

onli|1 month ago

Good commentary, good video. She is a little bit too harsh about the data loss though. The author did not realize that disabling data sharing would delete the history of the already occurred interactions, probably not realizing that everything was stored on an external server. And it's quite possible there was no proper warning about that.

I feel that makes her point weaker. Because she is apart from that completely right: The work practice admitted to here is horrible. It likely includes leaking private emails to an US company and in every case meant the job of teaching and publishing wasn't don't properly, not even close.

m_rpn|1 month ago

First rule of the world: "if you don't understand the implications, don't do it".

How much are we willing to justify every wrong behaviour possible?

jdhendrickson|1 month ago

Such a great response to this article. Scathing but enjoyable to watch. Angela is a treasure.