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It’s not really about ai but tech illiterates. You can replace cgpt with anything in this example if someone is not well versed they will believe anything, Dubai prince inheritance mail too
this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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Well you can’t expect the average person to be tech literate
You can’t expect the average person to vote in their best self interest either
Ppl can’t even read and illiteracy is increasing
It’s a god damn tragedy, not something to shrug off
I know a university professor who has had this kind of interaction with a student who claimed that they had graded an exam wrongly because ChatGPT gave a different answer. The STUDENT called the PROFESSOR a liar because AI gave a different answer...
Professors being wrong happens all the time.
When I was in school I called my teachers liars/misinformed/uninformed all the time. I just didn't have chatgpt to summarize why, so I actually had to read a book if I wanted to make that claim and back it up. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with your professor, you shouldn't trust anything that anyone says blindly, ESPECIALLY FUCKING CHATGPT
There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with your professor using credible sources
Oh boy. Ohhhhhh boy.
I'm confused, why not just refund her and be done with it? Then again, it's possible they offered but the customer was still angry they didn't have something.
Solution is simple. Since she doesn't seem to think that AIs hallucinate, just tell her to have an AI generate the maps she needs.
And now their site is down.
No it isn't. I just checked and it loaded fine.
Sure, but what does ChatGPT say?
It says they have a map of Jupiter.
I subscribed, and it's NOT THERE!!
The owner is a LIAR and a SCAMMER!
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FYI, the passage of time means both things can be true.
FYI the passage of DNS configurations, spotty internet connections, and regional hosting outages also means both can be true.
It's still not loading for me.
Weird.
Both of you run traceroute!!
Because you asked so politely.
It seems like you are much more connected, 19* hops versus “general connection failure” :)
Sounds like you have no internet at all lol? At least DNS works. Maybe your router is filtering out the ICMP ping messages that traceroute uses.
I have no idea what's going wrong, in Chrome it's now telling me that "Your access to the internet is being blocked -- ERR_NETWORK_ACCESS_DENIED"
But I don't have this issue with any other website.
And I tried it with a VPN as well, and then the page loaded for a second, but then it gave me that ACCESS_DENIED error as well. So I guess they don't want me on their website.
This isn't an AI problem. This is a "most humans are assholes" problem. How hard is it to say "Oh, you don't have what I need? That's too bad. Can you please cancel my subscription?"
I just can't understand why it got to the point of her sending screenshots. Is this the guy not giving a refund or does this person think that he's lying and she wants the map he's "hiding".
I'd assume it's the idiot sending ChatGPT screenshots.
The person complaining thinks the proprietor is scamming people, and (apparently) ChatGPT, by falsely advertising what products are available.
Idiot: You lied about your product! MapGuy: Where did you see that (on my website)? Idiot: ChatGPT screenshot
It's an AI problem. We know people are stupid. However, people selling AI garbage tell them it's intelligent, when it really isn't. It is trained to speak confidently and people believe it. It's why con(fidence) men work.
The people pushing these products know some people won't understand it, and they know they'll take what it says at face value, and they fight to push this idea too. They are creating this situation on purpose. If they were responsible they'd be very forward with the limitations and try to ensure even the most gullible of people are skeptical of what it writes. They don't even try to do this though. They create a situation where this happens to pad their own pockets.
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It’s absolutely an AI problem and it’s an asshole problem. It’s an asshole problem exacerbated by shitty AI.
Before it was via search engines.
I was working support for a multinational tech company, customer: "I searched for your support number and I rang them and they scammed me, you guys are shit".
Turns out they clicked on the top result that was SEO'd to shit to catch these types of people that can't think for themselves.
So not just assholes, but also tech illiterate folks that trust the first thing they read.
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It’s both. People are misusing AI at the encouragement of companies who want to sell it.
What people want is factually correct information. AI doesn’t deliver this, what it delivers is competently presented and easily understood words which may or may not be correct.
Unfortunately, many people don’t understand how AI works so they don’t realize that they’re using the wrong tool for what they want to accomplish.
The reason AI is part of the problem is that it contributes to the spread of misinformation.
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Ha! Humanity is cooked, not because the AI will take over, but because we'll just hand it control 🙄
Humanity isn't fucked. Some people are fucked. Imagine she asked an human agent to purchase it for her, and she blindly believing the agent.
She would at least blame the human instead of site owner.
"The site owner scammed us, lady! We have to corner him!"
We already have.
Social media algorithms are already determined elections and have made Gen Z the first generation to get more conservative than the previous one.
The key constant with humanity is stupidity. Forever and always people are dumb af.
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Reminds me of a cartoon of two guys in a bar and one says, "Oh yeah, like you know more than the Internet!"
At one point that was a true statement.
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