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Please, please do not ever respond to a post with an answer like “ChatGPT says…” or “Claude told me…”. It is very rude.

It is wrong. These tools can’t answer questions; they mash words around, and will make up nonsense. When the machine does it, it’s just gibberish, but by posting it, you’re turning it into a lie, and anyone who posts or repeats it without attribution will turn it into disinformation.

It wastes time. Now everyone has to fact-check you instead of researching the question.
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Lenny 2y ago

nostr:npub1pfe56vzppw077dd04ycr8mx72dqdk0m95ccdfu2j9ak3n7m89nrsf9e2dm somehow we've discovered the only response more annoying than "let me google that for you"

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Glyph 2y ago

nostr:npub1hfyktnpxdkxc4n298fzl6fdwsm26hg2yhzrp5w2fq4uqunyg4mmqw9aw7q LMGTFY is at least understandable when people are clogging up a support channel with requests for easily-discovered information that more or less proves they’re just asking volunteers to do their homework for them. Still rude, still a bad idea, and it’s definitely metastasized into being an obnoxious quip from people who have no idea what the results are or whether they answer the question. But in some cases it’s an understandable frustration.

“I asked an LLM” is always wrong.