Things my husband didn't know:

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Things my husband didn't know:

* what is grok(in the context of X)
* That OpenAI used to be non-profit
* What Studio Ghibli is.
* The Studio Ghibli Controversy
* What "Training Data" are

Thought "everyone" knew this stuff. That's *my* bubble I get it.

He's very up to date on news, just not this.

Nonetheless his IT department keeps asking them to "learn copilot" so they can "be more efficient" everyone hates it. (Is Microsoft doing something to make IT departments do this all over the place?)

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In other "non-computer obsessed people" AI news I had a big breakthrough with my mom. She has been writing these self-published books with the local historical society about the Civil War graves in the Pittsburgh area. I think it's great. Books like that don't get much attention but someday some historian will cry tears of joy that they exist. Otherwise the information will vanish.

But she said she was using chat GPT to help.

I kind of lost it.

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I wrote her this long (probably too passionate note) about how it would "sand away" her voice. What's the point of making your writing sound exactly like everyone else?

My mom is a mathematician and not really into writing. So, I can understand the appeal. "It just makes the sentences sound like they're supposed to"

It makes the sentences sound boring. And the topic is already boring enough.

Anyway she's come around I think to writing. And I'm offering to help edit. 2/2

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Because then I have a best friend who keeps saying things like "chatGPT said that he didn't think ..."

There is no "he"
There is no "think"
There probably isn't even a "said"

I feel like I'm fighting a multi-front war.

This new tech has not been explained to "the general public" well. This reminds me of the early days of the internet when everyone was so scared of it... only now they aren't scared enough... in the right ways if that makes sense.