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by tiedieconderoga 1106 days ago
He was probably in a rush. People use these tools to offload work they might otherwise have done if they had more time.

People who understand the systems limit their use to tasks where small occasional errors are acceptable. People who don't understand the systems are happy to accept any plausible-soundong results, especially if they don't have time to do the work themselves.

I would not be surprised if, sometime in the next year, we see a doctor or two being sued for malpractice after accepting an incorrect diagnosis from ChatGPT. When people are rushed and overworked, and the system is usually correct, these kinds of incidents are almost certain to happen at the scale of an entire society or profession.