maybe it happened
"Hi. I hope this date finds you well" stuff. Heh, I'd cancel too.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2026
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AI can be pretty good at finding local events and activity suggestions. Is Googling it any better?
Why is googling it the alternative?
Since google is now using AI for all that shit, probably not.
Kicking and screaming we will go... or we'll be the new version of the hippies that bought farms and started compounds in the 70's.
The only thing that might save us is the price of AI scraping the web being so expensive it's not worth it and we get real search engines again.
We can't even be saved by social media local scopes because the stores and event managers are using AI, the social media is using it to deliver the results to us.
It's shitty, but the guy just did the equivalent of running an ai enabled google or facebook search.
Are you for real? For me it just keeps spewing out locations and events that do not exist or that have been closed since forever
If it does it, it does, no need to explicitly and proactively credit it.
It's less about this specific isolated incident and more about what it suggests broadly about their behavior with respect to ChatGPT.
But even for this specific incident, I'd even say that while less controversial, saying "I'll just google up what to do" would also be a bit of a let down. It suggests a lack of thoughtfulness even if that's really what someone does. Ask for input and then come back with your plans without referring to how you are leaning on some tech, so the person can at least think maybe you put in a measure of actual thought and effert.
I'm always suspicious of tweets where the author defeats a strawman but this followup post has me pretty convinced of its inauthenticity
No, I have literally never done that. I have never once in my life confused the two lol
That's a really weird reason to think it's fake. There are plenty of reasons, not least that it's on the internet at all, but this describes a very normal human thought error. I understand it's not the type of mistake any individual person would necessarily make, but if you don't understand that some people definitely would, I think you could use more insight into the variety of personalities and thought processes which exist.
I was suspicious it was fake already because it's written like an attention-seeking LinkedIn post. Then the followup reads like a "oops, I didn't mean to post that picture...but since you all liked it..." post everyone sees through on Myspace. Who writes like that to their friends?
you are a lemmy user... a rare breed. She is on twitter and all these other platforms chirpin. I could believe. Yet it might be bogus but it still hits.
Ok, but the tone of her post wasn't the tone of a private message to someone, or to a private group that knows her.
There's too much effort in establishing the full context about her being a widow and exactly how long and just the tone of the post screams public post not private message to friends.
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telling a date that u use a chatbot to decide is lame
Using the chat bot to make your plans in the first place is even more lame.
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