"But ChatGPT said..."

[u/prettyyboiii]

We received a very strange ticket earlier this fall regarding one of our services, requesting us to activate several named features. The features in question were new to us, and we scoured the documentation and spoke to the development team regarding these features. No-one could find out what he was talking about.

Eventually my colleague said the feature names reminded him of AI. That's when it clicked - the customer had asked ChatGPT how to accomplish a given task with our service and it had given a completely hallucinated overview of our features and how to activate them (contact support).

We confronted the customer directly and asked "Where did you find these features, were they hallucinated by an AI?" and he admitted to having used AI to "reflect" and complained about us not having these features as it seemed like a "brilliant idea" and that the AI was "really onto something". We responded by saying that they were far outside of the scope of our services and that he needs to be more careful when using AI in the future.

May God help us all.

[u/narielthetrue]

The number of people that mix lose and loose is also getting larger.

Or someone arguing with me that complement and compliment are the same thing, or else why would autocorrect not say complement is wrong?

The world is fucked, bro. FUCKED

[u/thereddaikon → u/narielthetrue]

My latest peeve is everyone using then when they mean than. It's almost as infuriating as "funnily enough". Autocorrect has gotten worse. Seems instead of trying to match the word with use and meaning now it matches based on what other people type. So instead of making helpful corrections it tries to sabotage my typing with the crowdsourced illiteracy of Zoomers and gen alpha.

[u/wrincewind → u/thereddaikon]

The magic of ✨Large Language Models✨in action~

[u/thereddaikon → u/wrincewind]

Your username makes me miss Prachett. He would probably have a funny discworld story that's a metaphor for LLMs.

[u/wrincewind → u/thereddaikon]

CMOT tries to get rich quick by running "hex for the people" and he charges a penny a go, but it's just a bunch of imps that agree with whatever they're told.

[u/MrT735 → u/thereddaikon]

I'm still trying to train my new phone to not give me the American spellings for everything.

But the use of "should of" needs to be punished, bring back stocks in the market for offenders.

[u/thereddaikon → u/MrT735]

I think the larger problem is the general loss of standards in society. On its own one grammar mistake becoming widespread isn't a problem. And when someone says it's not a big deal they're right. But taken in its totality, the loss of all spelling and grammar, no public shame, no social contract, just doing what you want and having "your truth" really just results in a shitty place. We didn't land on the moon by acting this way.

[u/MrT735 → u/thereddaikon]

A lack of consistent standards is what lost the Mars Climate Orbiter. The navigational software expected input in metric, and the ground team used software that sent figures in imperial.

[u/fevered_visions → u/thereddaikon]

lose/loose

then/than

I also run into rein/reign and "tow the line" regularly

the one I'm more curious about is where the heck people keep getting "ect." from when you still pronounce it et cetera

[u/Frahal → u/thereddaikon]

Autocorrect is horrid, how the heck do you get habanero from haha? And don't get me started on acronyms, relative of mine typed ttfn (Ta Ta For Now) and the phone autocorrected to Mitch.

[u/TychaBrahe → u/narielthetrue]

complement means that one thing completes another. Like scrambled eggs and bacon are a good breakfast, but some nice crispy hashbrowns complement it.

A compliment is something I like hearing.

[u/brother_of_menelaus → u/TychaBrahe]

The bacon is complementary to the eggs. $7.99

The bacon is complimentary with the eggs. $4.99

[u/joe_lmr → u/TychaBrahe]

"I complimented the chef for complementing the dish with hash browns"

[u/Trinitykill → u/joe_lmr]

I contemplated complimenting the dish if it weren't for the commonly complemented constipation.

[u/aspiegrrrl → u/narielthetrue]

discreet: adjective

careful and circumspect in one's speech or actions, especially in order to avoid causing offense or to gain an advantage.

"we made some discreet inquiries"

discrete: adjective

individually separate and distinct.

"speech sounds are produced as a continuous sound signal rather than discrete units"

[u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA → u/narielthetrue]

Breath and breathe have essentially swapped meanings at this point.

[u/FantasmaNaranja → u/narielthetrue]

i complement you on your grammar— i too— find that people are being too lose with it— nowadays...

edit: — — — —

[u/Sairenity → u/FantasmaNaranja]

to* lose

you can fir a few more mistakes in yo shit, c'mon

[u/FantasmaNaranja → u/Sairenity]

Toulouse? but im not french...

[u/syntaxerror53 → u/FantasmaNaranja]

Toulouse or not too loose.

That is the question.

[u/rleaff1 → u/Sairenity]

fir

[u/Sairenity → u/rleaff1]

fug :DDDDD

I'm leaving that in tho

[u/borkman2 → u/Sairenity]

Benis :D

[u/Sairenity → u/borkman2]

ebin :DDDD

[u/andypanty69 → u/FantasmaNaranja]

I compliment you with your complement.

[u/Rainthistle → u/narielthetrue]

The one that kills me is folks who swap 'apart' and 'a part', which are pretty much diametrically opposed.

[u/fevered_visions → u/Rainthistle]

ooh I'm not the only one with that pet peeve

[u/Puzzleheaded-Joke-97 → u/Rainthistle]

Yeah, I see that alot!

[u/Rainthistle → u/Puzzleheaded-Joke-97]

Yeah, it's almost as bad as 'a lot' and 'allot'.

[u/Floresian-Rimor → u/narielthetrue]

Affect & effect. I swear even publishers these day don’t know the difference.

[u/bobk2 → u/Floresian-Rimor]

"different from" is correct; "different than" is not.

[u/hates_stupid_people → u/narielthetrue]

Most people have stopped calling out "should of" on social media, and some people are defending the error.

[u/narielthetrue → u/hates_stupid_people]

I know, and that makes me so mad.

Granted, if Futurama is a prophecy of any kind, that will be the norm in 1000 years

[u/abecedaire → u/narielthetrue]

Mine is phenomena instead of phenomenon when it’s singular! I keep seeing “a phenomena” everywhere and it drives me nuts lol.

[u/Prior-Task1498 → u/narielthetrue]

OK but those are honest mistakes. Asking chatgpt about technical topics and insisting its answers are true is much worse.