I think the point of the article people seem to be missing is that she doesn’t like how people are letting themselves be lazy to the point that they want to offload any and all of their thinking and creativity to an LLM, and not being able to see a problem with that can be quite a turn-off.
It wasn’t “This person used an Internet Service to write me a poem.” It was , “This person searched for a winery using an Internet service so I wouldn’t date them.”
There’s an absolutely enormous difference between the two use cases.
If you read the article, it also talks about people using ChatGPT for online dating.
Ali Jackson, a dating and relationship coach based in New York, uses ChatGPT for some tasks – but she is not an evangelist. In the past six months or so, she says “every one” of her clients has come to her complaining about “chatfishing” or people who use AI to generate everything on their dating apps – all the way down to the DMs they send.
I wouldn’t consider any kind of relationship (romantic or not) with someone that didn’t even want to talk with me.
Do you drop a friend if he sets up a route in Google maps instead of using a paper one?
It has been shown that using Google maps actually reduces your ability to get around too and think for yourself when it comes to orientation.
I think a lot in the comments are missing the point. It’s okay to think this, but letting it affect your friendships in such a way just makes you a shitty friend.
I know, but I understand and acknowledge that using Google Maps makes my natural navigation ability worse.
Similarly with not being able to remember phone numbers because of saving contact info.
It’d be problematic if I pretended these aren’t issues.
(But I also don’t think AI is the level of usefulness of Google Maps or even the contacts app on your phone.)
The friends in article seem to still be friends, just they’ll be the target of a little teasing for asking AI instead of just thinking or even Googling it.
In the context of dates, people have just met, so I don’t know why people keep talking about dropping friends.
if my future spouse came to me with wedding input courtesy of ChatGPT, there would be no wedding.
I think the author’s position is actually very extreme tbh. It’s talking about dropping a fiance.
If someone drops me, fiance or friend, because of what software I choose to use, I would really be questioning if they ever cared for me. I personally can’t think of anything so mundane I would drop someone over. It seems borderline unthinkable.
Teasing is fine but that’s not what the headline or even the article seems to be about for the most part.
I think it’s okay to be aware of the issues, but this seems to be about choosing friends based on this. It seems very wrong, like being told by a vegan that we can’t be friends anymore because I eat meat.
I think the point of the article people seem to be missing is that she doesn’t like how people are letting themselves be lazy to the point that they want to offload any and all of their thinking and creativity to an LLM, and not being able to see a problem with that can be quite a turn-off.
It wasn’t “This person used an Internet Service to write me a poem.” It was , “This person searched for a winery using an Internet service so I wouldn’t date them.”
There’s an absolutely enormous difference between the two use cases.
If you read the article, it also talks about people using ChatGPT for online dating.
I wouldn’t consider any kind of relationship (romantic or not) with someone that didn’t even want to talk with me.
I agree. But the first paragraph was “I wouldn’t date anyone who picked a winery using the help of an Internet service.”
Do you drop a friend if he sets up a route in Google maps instead of using a paper one?
It has been shown that using Google maps actually reduces your ability to get around too and think for yourself when it comes to orientation.
I think a lot in the comments are missing the point. It’s okay to think this, but letting it affect your friendships in such a way just makes you a shitty friend.
There’s a difference between “one skill [navigation] atrophies” and “all skills atrophy”.
I know, but I understand and acknowledge that using Google Maps makes my natural navigation ability worse.
Similarly with not being able to remember phone numbers because of saving contact info.
It’d be problematic if I pretended these aren’t issues.
(But I also don’t think AI is the level of usefulness of Google Maps or even the contacts app on your phone.)
The friends in article seem to still be friends, just they’ll be the target of a little teasing for asking AI instead of just thinking or even Googling it.
In the context of dates, people have just met, so I don’t know why people keep talking about dropping friends.
I think the author’s position is actually very extreme tbh. It’s talking about dropping a fiance.
If someone drops me, fiance or friend, because of what software I choose to use, I would really be questioning if they ever cared for me. I personally can’t think of anything so mundane I would drop someone over. It seems borderline unthinkable.
Teasing is fine but that’s not what the headline or even the article seems to be about for the most part.
I think it’s okay to be aware of the issues, but this seems to be about choosing friends based on this. It seems very wrong, like being told by a vegan that we can’t be friends anymore because I eat meat.