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Next human will put the code in a prompt and ask what it does. Chinese Whispers.

Aachen 2y ago
I tried making a meme some months ago with exactly this idea, but for emails. One person would tell an LLM "answer that I'm fine with either option" and sends a 5 KB email, in response to which the recipient receives it and gets the automatic summary function to tell them (in a good case) "they're happy either way" or (in a bad case) "they don't give a damn". It didn't really work, too complex for meme format as far as my abilities went, but yeah the bad translator effect is something I'm very much expecting from people who use an LLM without disclosing it
- _heimdall 2y ago
  If someone is going to use an LLM to send me an email, I'd much rather them just send me the prompt directly. For the LLM message to be useful the prompt would have included all the context and details anyway, I don't need an LLM to make it longer and sound more "professional" or polite.
  - Aachen 2y ago
    That is actually exactly my unstated point / the awareness I was hoping to achieve by trying to make that meme :D
  - mithametacs 2y ago
    Not necessarily. Your prompt could include instructions to gather information from your emails and address book to tell your friend about all the relevant contacts you know in the shoe industry.
    - _heimdall 2y ago
      Well that sounds reasonable enough. My only request is that you send me the prompt and let me decide if I want to comply...informed consent!
- rty32 2y ago
  Wow, I love good, original programming jokes like these, even the ideas of the jokes. I used to browse r/ProgrammerHumor frequently, but it is too repetitive -- mostly recycled memes and there is anything new. This is one that I really liked: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/l5gg3t/this_website_doesnt_use_cookies/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/l5gg3t/thi...
- alexxys 2y ago
  This meme already exists ;) https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/128nwi2/bullet_point/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/128nwi2/bullet_poi...
lupire 2y ago
(No need to Orientalize to defamiarize, especially when a huge fraction of the audience is Chinese, so Orientalizing doesn't defamiliarize. Game of Whispers or Telephone works fine.)
- protomolecule 2y ago
  Do the Chinese call it English Whispers?
  - ahoka 2y ago
    It’s all Greek to them.
  - tessierashpool 2y ago
    Chinese-Americans, at least, call it a game of Telephone, like everyone else in the English-speaking world except for the actual English. We call it “Telephone” because “Chinese Whispers” not only sounds racist, it is also super confusing. You need a lot of cultural context to understand the particular way in which Chinese whispers would be different from any other set of whispers.
    - tessierashpool 2y ago
      I happened to re-read this, and to be clear, I'm not Chinese-American. the "we" there means "everyone else in the English-speaking world except for the actual English."
- cryptonym 2y ago
  Pardon my French.

I tried making a meme some months ago with exactly this idea, but for emails. One person would tell an LLM "answer that I'm fine with either option" and sends a 5 KB email, in response to which the recipient receives it and gets the automatic summary function to tell them (in a good case) "they're happy either way" or (in a bad case) "they don't give a damn". It didn't really work, too complex for meme format as far as my abilities went, but yeah the bad translator effect is something I'm very much expecting from people who use an LLM without disclosing it

_heimdall 2y ago
If someone is going to use an LLM to send me an email, I'd much rather them just send me the prompt directly. For the LLM message to be useful the prompt would have included all the context and details anyway, I don't need an LLM to make it longer and sound more "professional" or polite.
- Aachen 2y ago
  That is actually exactly my unstated point / the awareness I was hoping to achieve by trying to make that meme :D
- mithametacs 2y ago
  Not necessarily. Your prompt could include instructions to gather information from your emails and address book to tell your friend about all the relevant contacts you know in the shoe industry.
  - _heimdall 2y ago
    Well that sounds reasonable enough. My only request is that you send me the prompt and let me decide if I want to comply...informed consent!
rty32 2y ago
Wow, I love good, original programming jokes like these, even the ideas of the jokes. I used to browse r/ProgrammerHumor frequently, but it is too repetitive -- mostly recycled memes and there is anything new. This is one that I really liked: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/l5gg3t/this_website_doesnt_use_cookies/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/l5gg3t/thi...
alexxys 2y ago
This meme already exists ;) https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/128nwi2/bullet_point/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/128nwi2/bullet_poi...

lupire 2y ago

(No need to Orientalize to defamiarize, especially when a huge fraction of the audience is Chinese, so Orientalizing doesn't defamiliarize. Game of Whispers or Telephone works fine.)

protomolecule 2y ago
Do the Chinese call it English Whispers?
- ahoka 2y ago
  It’s all Greek to them.
- tessierashpool 2y ago
  Chinese-Americans, at least, call it a game of Telephone, like everyone else in the English-speaking world except for the actual English. We call it “Telephone” because “Chinese Whispers” not only sounds racist, it is also super confusing. You need a lot of cultural context to understand the particular way in which Chinese whispers would be different from any other set of whispers.
  - tessierashpool 2y ago
    I happened to re-read this, and to be clear, I'm not Chinese-American. the "we" there means "everyone else in the English-speaking world except for the actual English."
cryptonym 2y ago
Pardon my French.