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Well this is grim
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I can deal with this - it’s a kid who doesn’t know what the tech is, that can be fixed
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It's a kid whose mental model doesn't care what the tech is.
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Yeah, like to him he's getting an authoritative answer, that's not a tech problem, that's a world view/mental model problem.
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Ask anyone in IT. PEBCAK is the hardest problem to solve lol
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PEBCAK is just cope for bad UX. Or in the case of ChatGPT, a bad concept entirely.
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As a UX designer and instructor, often. Not here.
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There are hundreds of publications and highly paid shills out there telling our beloved BCAKs that what they are doing is not a P.
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PEBCAK of tech "entrepreneurs" and vulture capitalists, that feed incompetent tech journalists.
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Most tech journalist are strongly against this shit, at least that I’ve seen. That might be a biased sampling but still…
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I had to look that up and the new Google Search told me it was a breed of dog. JK, I did have to look it up but it gave the correct answer.
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Otherwise known as the 1D-10T error.
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the entire point of the tech is to /sound like/ it's giving authoritative answers, though, which surely muddies things a bit like, the kid's not wrong, it IS functionally a search engine of everything. it just gives highly lossy results
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I’m misread your post and snarked about it. I’m sorry. If you’re referring to AI bullshit I agree. It’s meant to look authoritative. But I do think that means you have to educate kids about it like, say tobacco (if the government won’t step in so something which it won’t).
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no worries, i missed your first reply anyway i don't think our educational system is really designed for something like this, though. are most /teachers/ even skeptical of chatgpt? it's an easy box you can type any question into and get an answer for, hard for non-turbo-nerds to simply dismiss
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it's very bad and the simplest way through seems to be for everyone to just gradually discover that it's very bad and i guess my original thought is that the tech /is/ bad, or at the very least wildly irresponsible. it's a fantasy machine marketed as a super smart scifi computer man
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I don’t know where you are but based on America since 2016 I don’t think people can learn themselves. It’s too much for a significant part of the population’s Homo erectus brains. I get no pleasure from saying that.
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If there was demand we could fill it. I don’t expect the 6th grade science teacher to teach English lit. In the same way we need people teaching media literacy and tech literacy.
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Well you can't claim to be searching everything if you ignore all the wrong answers!