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Last thing I want in slack is generated content. I want honest communications warts and all.
by swader999 4y ago
Last thing I want in slack is generated content. I want honest communications warts and all.
- DogLover_ 4y agoWelcome to the future! There is no way stopping that now.
- surgical_fire 4y agoWhy would generated content be "dishonest"? If you are actively using a LLM through slack to generate content, why would that be "dishonest"? It would actually be pretty cool functionality if it could ingest the data from a channel and answer queries I have about what was discussed there.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoWell same, and so far I'm managing, but I can imagine there's plenty of larger organizations where keeping up with everything that might be relevant to you in Slack (or other channels) is a day job, distracting you from your actual day job. I have a compulsion to join channels relevant to me and to keep reading messages until everything is marked as read. So far this has worked okay, but at the same time I realize sometimes half my day is spent just keeping up with things instead of my actual day job. Speaking of which, I should get back to it.
- fhd2 4y agoSame, but I'm not so worried about it, it all comes down to trust. I got an email the other day by someone offering to do my work for me, sharing their earnings. I suppose some people might do that sort of thing, and with a (different) human being on the other side it's even harder to tell you're being tricked. If you get people throwing generated content at you instead of talking to you - maybe for some people in some contexts that's actually useful. In other contexts it's not, and can be dealt with. I presume organisations will figure out how (not) to use LLMs given some time, and will hold their workers accountable to that.
- Veen 4y agoI don't know. Some of the semi-literate gibberish I often have to deal with in Slack conversations might benefit from a pass through an LLM.