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Posted by pjerem 4 hours ago

Don't Paste the AI, please(dontpastetheai.com)
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pammf 3 hours ago|
Agree that it isn’t nice to just copy & paste, but the assumption that your AI generated answers will the same of someone’s else is wrong. Everyone using AI for a while built a different set of preferences, memories and context in general which influence the answers.
Barbing 3 hours ago||
Or no memories or history.

Would be interesting if someone said “I spent $2.50 using llm-council with the three top SOTA models and think this reply makes sense: {paste}”

(But better “not sure, though after spending a few bucks on model APIs, perhaps {human-written analysis} is in the right direction”)

Also like you, I did think on the angry version “they have the same AI you do” isn’t likely to be right in the consumer space since their AI is ChatGPT (free version?!) and yours is Claude or something.

pammf 3 hours ago|||
Even with the same model results are different. I work in a startup where they went bonks with AI ~1 year ago. Every employee got a Claude account that I don’t even know what tier is (we just have what feels like unlimited tokens), they implemented infamous AI usage leaderboards, people were getting “you’re not using AI enough” feedback and all of that…

Over time, it was impressive to see how much the output of the same prompt would differ between us, and it seems to be heavily influenced by the role of the user. I.e. answers coming from the agent of a Data Engineer, a Backend Engineer and a Domain Researcher would not be the same at all. Some of us use harnessing tools, some not, but regardless it we saw differences.

So, for example, when a backend engineer would send a question to a data engineer, there was *some* added value even when it was a lazy copy & paste.

user_7832 3 hours ago|||
You're giving too much credit to people. The folks who run an LLM council aren't the ones blindly copy pasting things.

There's responsible AI use (which I think you - and I, and many people here) do, and the "I don't care, I've outsourced my brain to OpenAI" type of people.

parasti 3 hours ago||
Similar thoughts here. My gut tells me "if I wanted AI responses I would just ask AI", but in truth LLMs are not like Google Search. LLMs are more like a slot machine where you put your prompt in and out comes a combination of insights that are personalized to the inputs.
bguiop 52 minutes ago||
Awww... Soz. Is that not so good for your model training!
robinei 2 hours ago||
The article says they could have asked an AI themselves, but that is missing that I may have an agentic context with exactly the right information to answer the question well, which they do not have. For example because I worked on something closely related. Such an agent output is very useful, and taking the time to rewrite that to a short personal answer is not always worth it.
Hugsbox 1 hour ago|
Your agentic context is still going to shit out 3 pages where a sentence would suffice. Use AI all you want, and then WRITE THE ANSWER IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
alchemism 1 hour ago||
If I’m answering your question, and you are not directly paying me for being an information desk, you are definitely getting the AI reply.
winterbourne 2 hours ago||
This is like an earlier internet era when it was common for people to just copy-paste directly from other websites into a forum response.
block_dagger 2 hours ago||
The premise of the article is that everyone has access to the “same tools” but that’s glossing over the specialization inherent in a specific expert’s harness config (memories, skills, rules, repos, etc) that produce actually helpful responses (eg engineer’s view vs product manager’s view).
grzracz 2 hours ago||
Very ironic this page is full of AI text
getfacl 2 hours ago||
Unless I'm your research assistant, why would I be asking AI questions for you when you could do it yourself? If you need an answer I already have I will gladly share it with you. If you need my help to find an answer, then tell me that and I gladly will help.
wseqyrku 2 hours ago||
> Don't Paste the AI, please

You're gonna need a stronger language. Why do you think people love AI? If I have to think and god forbid read the response I might as well live in the woods or something

philipportner 2 hours ago|
Linked a the bottom of the post is the angry version https://dontpastetheai.com/angry/
amaldini 3 hours ago||
Give them a second brain so they don't bother you with silly questions: https://github.com/amaldini/maldalang/blob/main/Examples/Age...
usaphp 3 hours ago|
What if English is not your first language and you are afraid of sounding silly when you email or text someone?
kuboble 3 hours ago||
Ask the ai to point out the egregious mistakes only.

Especially today, I will prefer your slightly funny English to something that feels like AI.

And personally I do Support for people around the world and I often ask people to write in their native language.

Then I can translate myself and if the default ai translation gets something wrong I can add necessary context to improve it - which I can't really do if the only thing I get is the bad ai translation.

Ekaros 2 hours ago|||
Don't be. Read it through a few times and fix anything you think needs fixing. Go simpler if needed. You might just use shorter sentences. They are fine. And then you can use some pre-AI tool like Word that has some suggestions.
alchemism 1 hour ago||
Don’t use a calculator, either.
askonomm 3 hours ago|||
How did people do it before AI? Spellchecks have existed forever. Also, people have the ability to improve, so if you offload all your work elsewhere, you will never improve.
myaccountonhn 3 hours ago|||
How will you learn if you don't practice?
Hugsbox 1 hour ago|||
If you respond to me with slightly "off" english, I at least know it was a fellow human who wrote it and I will act accordingly.
xenocratus 3 hours ago|||
You write your reply and ask the AI to fix the spelling / grammar for you. It's really not the same thing
whazor 3 hours ago||
Create new chat after step 2, then ask AI to fix the spelling / grammar of those three sentences
walrus01 3 hours ago|||
خب، در آن صورت، من وقت می گذاشتم و متنی را با دست می نوشتم و دقیقاً همان چیزی را که نوشته بودم از طریق نرم افزار ترجمه ماشینی اجرا می کردم.
benrutter 2 hours ago||
Да, тоа изгледа како среќна средина.
RugnirViking 3 hours ago|||
det sker nogle gange! når man er ny til et sprog, det kan være forskrakkelig at skrive i et professionelt område. Men det er bare en del af dine udvikling - du kan sagtens skrive på hvilken sprog når som helst, og de kan bruge deres værktøj til at forstå det, du siger.

Der skal kom et tid hvor du skal tale på en sprog på dit kontor. Uden hjælp. Du har bruge for at øve dig, og folk er alligevel pænere end du tror.

(this being written in a foreign language I am learning is part of the point)

dragandj 3 hours ago|||
At this point I would hold that silly sounding message in a much higher regard than I would hold AI slop.
gib444 3 hours ago|||
I also suffer from this! But it's called growth. You will not improve language skills if you are too afraid to practice them

And in my experience, us Brits, and USA folk, we tend to be quite understanding of broken English

jesterson 3 hours ago|||
Use it to rewrite your OWN thoughts, or translate it to english. Not bloat with phrases sounding fancy but carrying no meaning
preommr 2 hours ago||
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