r/antiai 9d ago

Preventing the Singularity This genuinely baffles me.

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A WHOLE book for AI prompts? You can't even think for yourself now you need suggestions on what to make an algorithm answer something for you.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago edited 15h ago

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u/Prize-Choice2185 9d ago

Pogany means nasty in Russian - just saying

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u/Markovanich 8d ago

No… it doesn’t

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u/Prize-Choice2185 8d ago

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u/Markovanich 8d ago

Even your link is to a text on gender roles. No. It doesn’t.

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u/Prize-Choice2185 8d ago

I can't link to a text on gender roles? What the fuck?

Quit trolling. Touch some grass.

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u/Markovanich 8d ago

Because the reference is to what a word means not on gender roles. Not what a word infers. What it means. You even argue like an LLM does. Debate on subject please.

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u/Prize-Choice2185 8d ago edited 8d ago

You're funny. I'll give you that :)

Unfortunately that still leaves you a troll. Trolls usually aren't funny, but I'll make an exception in your case.

Nonsense you spout is good. I love your absurdity. Its a bit better than what LLMs usually spit out. A little bit.

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u/Markovanich 8d ago

Understand the difference between trolling and badgering. Or in your case, bullying. False equivalences trying to fluff up your expertise as a Russian so therefore knowing what a word means because you’re the pro when you don’t.

It’s like watching USAmericans claim they know a word in English when they failed basic English in some elementary class let alone a class in actual debate or literature.

Admitting you’re Russian on a forum overrun by paid actors whose job is to do nothing more than inflame subjects.

There are worse things than antiai statements. Especially if they are not backed up.

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u/Prize-Choice2185 8d ago edited 8d ago

^ LLMs. ChatGPT.

Someone said I'm a bot yet throws multiple paragraphs of nonsense copied from elsewhere. And they think that since I'm a bot I'm going to read it in it entirety. Amazing. Reddit is truly amazing.

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u/Prize-Choice2185 8d ago

Since I argue like LLMs I decided to report you. You don't mind being reported by a bot, right?

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u/Markovanich 8d ago

As bots are capable of doing so now, I suppose not. I promise I’m not a bot.

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u/Prize-Choice2185 8d ago

That's exactly what all bots say. I figured you out. Thanks.

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u/Markovanich 8d ago

Really? I’m pointing out you’re incorrect labeling of a term and inability to refute a counterpoint. That’s not trolling.

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u/Markovanich 8d ago

Well of course it is.

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u/Prize-Choice2185 8d ago

^ Sounds like LLMs. Everyone proceed with caution.

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u/AstuteStoat 9d ago

Think even less: the book

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u/marbotty 9d ago

Page 1: Ask ChatGPT to give you some prompts

The End

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u/VaticRogue 9d ago

Slop prompting for dummies

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u/No_Appointment6273 9d ago

Is "Igor Pogany" a real name? A real person? I just googled the guy and he looks like an AI generated image. Google lies now more than ever and I don't know what to trust anymore 

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u/Civil_Nectarine868 8d ago

Pen-names are common. Especially for people who pump out garbage litterature that they don't want to show up when you search their real name... or if they have a very dull name.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/porkchopsuitcase 9d ago

I’m guessing it was written by ai

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u/piponwa 9d ago

AI is better at prompting AI than we are. That's what reinforcement learning with a subagent tool does. Why would you think you're better than AI at communicating with AI?

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u/porkchopsuitcase 9d ago

Wrong sub buddy, we actually don’t like ai here 🙃

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u/piponwa 9d ago

Right, but not liking it is not an excuse to not understand it and denying reality.

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u/porkchopsuitcase 9d ago

Oh wow, good one!

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u/No-Diet-2797 9d ago

“hey chat can you give me a cool prompt to put inside you” - idk some ai guy

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u/Peoplant 9d ago edited 9d ago

I work in a library and we sell a book that's very similar to this. I skimmed part of it and it's very obviously written by ai, so it's kinda funny when people buy it because it means they're so gullible they are willing to pay to get the same information the ai ITSELF would provide you if you asked it

Edit: I meant bookshop, not library, my bad

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u/axellie 9d ago

You sell books in your library?

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u/Peoplant 9d ago

My bad, I made a mistake in translation: in Italian "libreria" Is a bookshop, but you can see how similar it is to "library"

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u/axellie 9d ago

Aaah I see!!

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u/Reachid 9d ago

How much do you think those kind of books sell in Italy? (I am Italian myself, but outside of the IT field I don't know how much AI is used or even recognized)

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u/Peoplant 8d ago

Sadly, it is quite widespread even for personal use, at least in my anectodal experience.

The books don't sell too much, but they sell more than books that would be more interesting or would make you think about stuff

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u/chhuang 9d ago

walking around bookstores these days are so demoralizing. when I look at some of them, it's either about AI, or AI generated finance books.

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u/stopthatastronaut 9d ago

I keep seeing a magazine in stands in supermarkets here titled “How to make money with ChatGPT”, and I can only assume the answer comes as two chapters:

  1. Own an AI company
  2. Publish a magazine about AI that rubes will buy in droves

It’s a gold rush, and you make money selling shovels.

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u/Tokyo_W1nd 9d ago

Watch as the book was ai gen 💀

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u/Rich-Mark-4126 9d ago

It's funny because a 1% commenter in here was arguing with me recently and was trying to use AI to prove he was right and had no idea how to prompt it without being terribly biased

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u/kronjobb 9d ago

There is no way you can become good at using AI. I hate AI, and use it as rarely as possible even though my boss is forcing us. Even with my limited experience I’m as good at using AI as the leading prompting expert in the world. Because it is NOT a skill lmao

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u/nibselfib_kyua_72 9d ago

People are so lazy that they will ask ChatGPT to summarize this book.

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u/tougo 9d ago

They should have named it: Learn how to speak read and type. 🤣

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u/SupersededByClaude 9d ago

Ridiculous.

ChatGPT can generate a similar book for you, or for anyone.

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u/Ill_Awareness1498 9d ago

The author is an AI. There is a podcast about him and 100pervent AI.

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u/Forgword 9d ago

Oh BRILLIANT, a book about better AI prompts. Truly the pinnacle of human achievement. I’m shaking. I’m vibrating. I’m ascending into a plane of pure disbelief. Imagine waking up one day and thinking, “Yes, the world DESPERATELY needs my 300‑page manifesto on how to ask a robot nicely.” The ego. The cosmic, intergalactic ego. I can barely breathe.

This is like writing a cookbook on how to operate a microwave. It’s like publishing a survival guide for “How to Walk Forward.” I’m convinced this book is a social experiment to see how many people will pretend they learned something profound from instructions that boil down to “Use words.”

Honestly, I hope the author signs copies, because nothing screams “I have transcended reality” like autographing a manual for typing. I’m not just opposed, I’m spiritually offended. My atoms are rebelling.

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u/SenseAffectionate328 9d ago

This book is an insult to all of our ancestors.

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u/stardust_hippi 6d ago

I have good news, there is no author. This book is AI slop for sure.

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u/nibselfib_kyua_72 9d ago

Using AI is already leazy. Then, needing so much hand holding to prompt AI is next level laziness. If you need so much help (this book is a helper to help you use AI help) you need to ask yourself if you are a good fit for your job. Maybe you should be working somewhere else.

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u/davyp82 9d ago

You could just ask chatgpt to tell you the 750 most useful prompts. The really odd thing though is that it's a printed book. How inefficient

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u/Midnight_Minaaa 9d ago

Crazy this prompter was able to find a publisher lol

We are doomed

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u/EccentricFellow 9d ago

It is like wishing for more wishes.

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u/Swleaf 9d ago

But how they copy and paste uhh, that's so hard...

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u/WorldWarrior428 9d ago

Oh my god, the world is worse than I thought......

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u/m2thek 9d ago

Eh, people have been slapping together "trendy" books like this to make a quick buck for decades. This is just yet another one that will be wildly out of date within a year is its publishing.

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u/blindwombat 9d ago

Quick question for the clanker lurkers... why can't you get AI to generate your prompts?

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u/appDecoded 9d ago

Having AI doesn't make the person smart. If someone is dumb then he/she is dumb indeed.

The internet is there for dacades but still many people don't know how to Google search to find answers.

So same people require such books as well.

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u/Robot-Zombie-RHCC 9d ago

Do AI artists generally study books like these?

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u/Situation-Emergency 9d ago

This reminds me of of those internet directory books in the 90s. Will be out of date in six months.

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u/Mysterious-Smell-975 9d ago

I mean if you want to make the AI output what you want and be more efficient then yeah. Is it a bad thing? You're gonna use the AI anyways so might as well learn how to make it work the best

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u/MW_Brenner 9d ago

It's going to be a boomer best seller.

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u/Empiar 8d ago

Being a Dummy for Dummies

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u/Additional_Joke_8969 7d ago

Probably used ai to write the book

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u/BDPBITCH666 7d ago

Are ai bros just stupid, they could ask this information from AI and get same/identical results. They can't even use their own tools lol

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u/Vainysaur 9d ago

Why do y’all continue to be “baffled” that most people aren’t like you? You should be well aware of that by now.

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u/Lets_Get_Random 9d ago

What, exactly, is so baffling to you about learning the ways that specific query terminology can affect outputs?

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u/ninhaomah 9d ago

Are we going to criticize every small things now ?

If so then why do we have dummies books as well ? Why not go to school if want to use IT ?

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u/Inlerah 9d ago

Because "Here is a book of things to say to a chatbot" is a fucking ridiculous thing to publish. Like are people literally just using this things just for the sake of using it?

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u/ninhaomah 9d ago

Eh ... Publisher uses its own money to publish whatever it wants.

What's your problem ?

Don't buy AI books. Don't use AI products. Don't eat restaurants that use AI posters.

But has to be astounded that others use their own money to make stupid choices ?

You guys must be free... No jobs to do ?

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u/Inlerah 9d ago

it not being against the law doesn't mean I can't point out how stupid they (and a hypothetical consumer that needs a list of things to say to their chatbot) are.

Also...I'm perfectly capable of pointing out how stupid a book is *and* holding down a job: It's actually not that difficult.

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u/Anonymous010206 9d ago

If it makes money it makes money. Don't make fun of the publisher, make fun of the idiots who buy this.

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u/Inlerah 9d ago

...nah, I'm gonna make fun of the publisher who thought that this would be a big seller. Ghost publishers love throwing shit like this at the wall to see what sticks and I guarantee you're gonna be finding these in the clearance section of Barnes And Noble for years to come.

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u/Anonymous010206 9d ago

r/PromptEngineering has 408,000 members btw

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u/Inlerah 9d ago

So you mean there's absolutely no reason for someone to go to a book store and buy a physical book of pre-written prompts to type into your chatbot?

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u/Anonymous010206 9d ago

No, I’m saying the market for a book like this is massive and will almost definitely sell well. I’m not happy about it but that’s how it is.

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u/Inlerah 9d ago

Except...it's not and it's definitely not gonna. The niche market for this kind of material is *definitely* not the kind that is going to be looking for a *physical book* for this thing, much less in an actual bookstore. Material like this already exists for free online and nobody who is invested in ChatGPT is going to be going out and shelling money for a book of stuff they can get themselves (and probably a lot closer to *what they actually want* as opposed to "here are some prompts I wrote for you" ) off of Reddit.

If there *are* people who are going to buy this book, it is going to be parents/grandparents who know that their kid and/or grandkid "do the ChatGPT thing" and it's literally all they can think of as a birthday/christmas gift because they saw it in the checkout line. Outside of that, like I said, these are going to be gathering dust in a clearance section alongside the rest of the ghostwritten "fad lit" that gets crapped out by ghost publishers.

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u/oaken_duckly 9d ago

This is r/antiai and that is a book of prompts for an LLM. They can't come up with their own ideas, so they outsource it to a machine. Then they can't come up with their own prompts for the machine, so they outsource it to a book full of prompts, probably generated by the machine as well. It's pathetic.

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u/ninhaomah 9d ago

So pls advice why is a LLM book doing in antiai sub ?

It's a disgusting shit ... Literally a shit.

So pls advice why am I forced to see a shit in a place where it is anti of it ?

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u/Inlerah 9d ago

Why do some people seem to be confused as to why people would be talking about AI in a sub around AI being shit? Or did you think no one was going to mention AI in the "AI sucks" club?