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NGO noyb has filed a complaint against ChatGPT for violation of the GDPR (noyb.eu)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can absolutely never blindly trust the hallucinating plagiarism machine.

It's great where either facts don't matter or you're personally in a position to vet all of its “factual” output 100%. Text revision, prompting for additional perspectives, prompting to challenge beliefs and identify gaps. Reformatting, quick and easy data extraction, outlining, brainstorming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reformatting and outlining as long as you go over and revise it again anyway, seemingly making that moot.

Data extraction as long as you don't care if the data is mangled.

Brainstorming is a good one, since off-the-wall ideas can be useful in that context.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In most cases I've seen AI used, the person spends as much time correcting it than they would if they just did the work without AI. So maybe it makes you feel more productive because a bunch of stuff happens all at once, but at least for text generation, I think it's more of a placebo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It can at least get one unstuck, past an indecision paralysis, or give an outline of an idea. It can also be useful for searching though data.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If all I want is something blatantly false or legible yet nonsensical, like a modern lorem ipsum, it's a real time-saver.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why not just use lorem ipsum? It's just a copy/paste, and without the liability of having false information if you forget to proofread it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

I guess ChatGPT is just completely useless, then.