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"I simply do not believe you." Well, I can't exactly prove it to you. The thing I would offer as evidence, though, is that most of my friends have white-collar

"I simply do not believe you." Well, I can't exactly prove it to you. The thing I would offer as evidence, though, is that most of my friends have white-collar jobs. They spend most days sitting in offices writing stuff. Let me give you an example. One of my friends works in a legal department at a bank. She often gets to review things like ads or promotions the bank runs. These often contain things that are illegal, because the marketing team is not made up of people who have a legal background, and many things that seem like reasonable ideas are illegal. So a lot of her work consists of explaining to people why they can't do the thing they want to do. She's not particularly good at doing that in an empathetic way, so she's started using ChatGPT to outline these emails for her. "The marketing team at my bank wants to run a competition where people who open a new account get a chance of winning a prize. This is illegal, since it violates sweepstakes laws (see below, where I've pasted the applicable sections). They either have to provide a way to enter the contest freely, without opening an account, or they have to abandon the idea. Can you write an email that explains this in an empathetic, but clear way?" Obviously, she then has to read the email ChatGPT writes and edit it, but it still saves her time and creates a better end result. "for any promising use case it fails completely" I simply do not believe you :-)

mvdtnz 2y ago
> "The marketing team at my bank wants to run a competition where people who open a new account get a chance of winning a prize. This is illegal, since it violates sweepstakes laws (see below, where I've pasted the applicable sections). They either have to provide a way to enter the contest freely, without opening an account, or they have to abandon the idea. Can you write an email that explains this in an empathetic, but clear way?" Just this paragraph but without the instructions to ChatGPT is sufficient for this case. It's literally more work to get a useful output from ChatGPT than just to do the work yourself. And that's not even accounting for the careful review you need to give every morsel of output from it.
- joquarky 2y ago
  > It's literally more work to get a useful output from ChatGPT than just to do the work yourself. This feels like opinion stated as fact. I don't write business language well, but I am able to communicate much more effectively with business people if I run it through an LLM to "translate" for me. I do some editing on the output, and I've saved 10 minutes that I would have otherwise agonized over whether or not I've used the right tone while emailing another department. "I've fixed the scrolling bug in the calendar component, and it should be published after lunch. Can you let Alex know I'll be around until 5 if he wants to go over it?" becomes "I have resolved the scrolling issue in the calendar component, and it is scheduled for publication this afternoon. Please let Alex know that I am available until 5 p.m. today if he would like to review it together."
- InsideOutSanta 2y ago
  "Just this paragraph but without the instructions to ChatGPT is sufficient for this case" It depends on who you're talking to. But either way, the point is that people do use LLMs, whether you agree with how they use them or not.

mvdtnz 2y ago

> "The marketing team at my bank wants to run a competition where people who open a new account get a chance of winning a prize. This is illegal, since it violates sweepstakes laws (see below, where I've pasted the applicable sections). They either have to provide a way to enter the contest freely, without opening an account, or they have to abandon the idea. Can you write an email that explains this in an empathetic, but clear way?" Just this paragraph but without the instructions to ChatGPT is sufficient for this case. It's literally more work to get a useful output from ChatGPT than just to do the work yourself. And that's not even accounting for the careful review you need to give every morsel of output from it.

joquarky 2y ago
> It's literally more work to get a useful output from ChatGPT than just to do the work yourself. This feels like opinion stated as fact. I don't write business language well, but I am able to communicate much more effectively with business people if I run it through an LLM to "translate" for me. I do some editing on the output, and I've saved 10 minutes that I would have otherwise agonized over whether or not I've used the right tone while emailing another department. "I've fixed the scrolling bug in the calendar component, and it should be published after lunch. Can you let Alex know I'll be around until 5 if he wants to go over it?" becomes "I have resolved the scrolling issue in the calendar component, and it is scheduled for publication this afternoon. Please let Alex know that I am available until 5 p.m. today if he would like to review it together."
InsideOutSanta 2y ago
"Just this paragraph but without the instructions to ChatGPT is sufficient for this case" It depends on who you're talking to. But either way, the point is that people do use LLMs, whether you agree with how they use them or not.