Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 5 months ago by 3volver to c/showerthoughts

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It's becoming really annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Oh my God why do I see this all the time on here. Nobody wants a massive copy/paste wall of text of whatever garbage chatGPT generated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I have my chatGPT configured to produce short answers. It’s really nice

[–] elephantium 1 points 5 months ago

I suggest using the Block User button when you see something that sparks this type of reaction. I make liberal use of it myself, and I have a much better time on Lemmy as a result.

[–] Cryophilia -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Me no want read! Me want 26 minute YouTube video!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

LMFAO oh yeah the reading is the problem, not the low-effort AI drivel. Dumbass take.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As long as there is quality in the response I don't see why you shouldn't share it. And there was no other post summarizing it as good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Because if people want to see what ChatGPT says, they can ask it themselves. You're not contributing anything by copy-pasting from ChatGPT. If you have commentary on what ChatGPT had to say, that could be different, but you literally just used ChatGPT's output as your whole comment.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

But couldn’t a person have figured out everything you just said on their own?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You're not contributing anything by copy-pasting from ChatGPT.

I disagree, it's the content that matters most and not the effort you put into a comment.

If you have commentary on what ChatGPT had to say, that could be different

Aight, then I'll just tell gpt to make it sound like a reddit comment next time lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I just don't understand why you want to copy-paste ChatGPT. Surely the parent commenter could access ChatGPT if they wanted, so you're not bringing a new perspective. If "content" is all that matters, you could generate a thousand different ChatGPT responses and reply to their comment with each one, but that's not acceptable. Why not?

People come here for a conversation with other people, and copy-paste ChatGPT responses don't actually contribute to that. If all they want is information/content, there are better places to find it. They could use ChatGPT, sure, but they could also use Wikipedia or even an economics textbook. It's up to them. Even if they use ChatGPT, they'd probably prompt it a few times in a few different ways to get the best info for them.

If you really want to use ChatGPT in your responses, why not add your own voice? When I suggested commentary I don't mean that you should just prompt ChatGPT into pretending to be a human, I mean that you should add your own perspective. Editorialize. Pull out the good bits.