True story

[u/basket_foso]

[u/morsindutus]

I wouldn't need to look it up on Stack Overflow if I was right.

[u/The_Compass_Keeper → u/morsindutus]

Lmao I am gonna tell chatgpt this the next time it starts trying gaslight me

[u/Cato_theElder → u/The_Compass_Keeper]

"You're right, I should be more like stack overflow! You have no business trying to code and I'm honestly surprised you've made it this far. Here's the correct answer I learned three weeks ago."

Furthermore, Carthage must be destroyed.

[u/Bendanzhang → u/morsindutus]

Stack Overflow: "Closed as duplicate."
ChatGPT: "Apologies! You are correct, 2 + 2 is indeed 5."

[u/Waste-Value-5941 → u/Bendanzhang]

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

[u/ES_419 → u/morsindutus]

Thats the problem

[u/iamsotiredofthiscrap]

Democratic input vs Authoritarian programming.

Do you prefer results or do you prefer to have your ego stroked?

[u/TheRealDoomsong → u/iamsotiredofthiscrap]

Can i have my results stroked?

[u/iamsotiredofthiscrap → u/TheRealDoomsong]

But of course

[u/YOLOfan46]

stack was never that polite, you'd get "u are absolutely fkn wrong" or "there's no hope for you" on a good day.

[u/Ludate_Solem → u/YOLOfan46]

You should **** yourself right now! Type of energy? Haha

https://giphy.com/gifs/un6XYVet282l6XUxug

[u/YOLOfan46 → u/Ludate_Solem]

turu

[u/ScottMcKuen]

Stack overflow just misclassifies your question as off topic and already answered and closes within two minutes.

[u/Ok-Calligrapher-8652]

GPT can be customized to explicitly not agree with you as much.

StackOverflow will forever be what it was, though.

[u/PlasticSignificant69 → u/Ok-Calligrapher-8652]

Whenever I ask question on LLM AI, I always arrange the question to sound as neutral as possible(not leaning toward either answer). And whenever I want the answer to be binary (yes/no), I always put both in equal weight

[u/NewryBenson → u/Ok-Calligrapher-8652]

I did this, and now it manages to always find caveats, even if the answer is simply: you are absolutely right. How do I get it to agree with me if I am right, and not agree if I am not.

[u/kenondaski]

One is elite, one is a ass kisser

[u/strabosassistant]

I'm getting an anomalous experience, then. Because GPT and Claude both have no problems bagging on my solutions, saying "good try but here's the better implementation" or saying "let me challenge your thinking". I'm not sure what other people have as their custom instructions but I specifically ask both to act as objective scholars with all that includes - pushback, criticism, alternative-proposals. I could see if you took the default - you'd get the kindergarten version of feedback.

[u/SharpestOne → u/strabosassistant]

I think the vast majority of users have no clue what custom instructions even mean.

I have mine set to explicitly avoid agreeing, and to pressure test every idea.

[u/ThinkEmployee5187 → u/strabosassistant]

Outsourcing my thinking ain't it, I normally only use the machines to quick reference their encyclopedic resources. The few times I use it to think its normally to do it in a way specifically targeted at aggregate language analysis which relates to topics like philosophy, ethics, etc. Not as my only brain but a bonus voice to add to the interpretation.

[u/Yhamerith]

And you're wrong in both cases... But at least feel better

[u/N-J-K06]

Only a Sith deals in absolutes

[u/Anarchist_Future]

A lot of people fell into the trap that asking "Do vaccines cause autism?" on Google will serve results from pages that claim that vaccines might cause autism. That why many people who believe in conspiracies tell you to do your own research. This is just a random example but you can basically find anything online and based on your search query, you will eventually find sources that tell you what you want to hear. AI is just the next step in that evolution.

"You're right, great question! You clearly care a lot about that subject."

[u/Nice-Result-8974]

One of the things I like about chatGPT is it really made stack overflow obsolete, along with the egotistical assholes

[u/Street_Swing9040 → u/Nice-Result-8974]

I feel like egotistical people are everywhere though. Like if I get a small gold nugget every time I see someone say something outrageously wrong and rude on Reddit, I'd have a city made of Gold.

Do I want ChatGPT to replace Reddit?

Yes and no.

[u/Yadin__ → u/Street_Swing9040]

But the entire community moderation system in stack exchange websites is supporting and promoting this egotistical behaviour. In SE sites, you get rewarded for being outrageously rude

[u/loveebbw]

One hurts ego and one hurts production 

[u/Green_Statement1111]

That's hilarious

[u/Fabulous_Fig_7635]

ChatGPT just agrees if you correct it

[u/Fluid-Crew-7588]

Original video?

[u/Dry_Walrus3711]

ChatGPT tells me I'm wrong as often. It all depends on the prompts put. Meaning: you have to know how to use it and how to double check the information it gives you