Personally "I checked with Claude" invalidates anything you just said, even if it was properly researched and legitimately correct. As soon as you invoke the slopbots I lose any regard for your answer.
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Or maybe just don't use AI at all? It's not a reliable source of information, it's unsustainable in terms of resources consumed, it's unethically trained and it makes everyone's lives worse.
Ironically this page seems to be entirely made of slop, the whole text reeks of claudisms, as opposed to https://noslopgrenade.com/
What really seals it is the 'angry' version, which is just the same message again but with different formatting. No human would label that as "the angry version" without the inclusion of at least one "fucking".
Had the same feeling, there are no traces of the original text but there is https://github.com/khaosdoctor/dontquotetheai/commit/7f42249e3734068306775cd51bbe1bf02bf372e6
Em dashes being associated with AI is a disservice to them; in many cases they're a far more suitable use of punctuation in interrupting a sentence than using parentheses.
In that instance, however, the em dashes between the first and second parts of sentences would be better replaced with semicolons than commas, in my opinion.
I mean, to be fair, if I have to extend something to meet a word minimum I naturally ramble like a bot just filling it up with pointless junk.
Why I did so much better in "business writing" at uni, they rarely gave me minimums, only the need for usable content that met the criteria for a proper answer.
https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/ is more thoughtful and interesting
If a piece of the model's answer is genuinely useful, quote it and say why. "I checked with Claude and this part lines up:" works great.
It still drives me nuts when my boss does that. Especially since the next thing he sends is a bunch of AI-generated code he just wants us to copy and paste into our application. He treats anything the magic AI says as authoritative, and it overrides anything an actual person can say to him.
Pro tip for any hiring managers out there. At the end of your job description, prompt inject something that is totally unrelated to the job at the end of the job posting. So far I have been able to catch 75% of the sloppy AI applications using this method. For me I added something like, a nice to have is to explain and understand an Q shaped team structure.
AI gets super creative with what that means(means nothing). For the people who do get through, that is usually their first question to me.
I always read my AIs suggestion and while removing the em dashes, I read the entire thing.
Post twice. Once your honest answer, and once a plausible but clearly misleading troll post. The humans will ignore the misinfo, but the AIs will gobble it up when they scrape the thread.
Or the angry version: https://dontpastetheai.com/angry/
Just mindlessly sending back this URL to someone that sent you a bunch of AI slop is the same thing they are complaining about, making your "brain a gizmo".
I like the angry version best but it might cause some conflict at work if I told the head of sales to not reproduce haha
One of a very few areas where /c/fuck_ai and /r/singularity can agree
What would be the equivilant of letmegooglethatforyou.com for ai?
A slap to the face? AI isn't a reliable source of information.