@davidcelis

Not only are you paying these fucking sociopaths, you’re actually paying to be handled by an AI agent.

I hate the stupid cruelty of this timeline.

hxxps://tryrefer[.]com/

@serigala_tropis @peter_mcmahan and it is also quite a pleasure to use.

@kasperd @jack_daniel

I read the joke as “people who use genAI copy-paste responses, instead of thinking themselves”.

I don’t think it was meant as a general statement about copy pasting, but I could be wrong.

@alan @jwildeboer

It is all an accountability problem. ‍️

@jack_daniel

I could not resist:

Give me a thorough explanation of the virtues of copy pasting.

ChatGPT:

Copy-pasting is one of those everyday actions that seems trivial until you imagine working without it. It's often associated with shortcuts or even plagiarism, but as a tool, it's neither good nor bad—it simply allows information to be transferred efficiently. Used thoughtfully, it has a surprising number of virtues.

1. It saves time

The most obvious advantage is speed. Recreating text, code, numbers, or formatting manually is often unnecessary work. Copy-pasting lets people focus on higher-value tasks instead of repetitive typing.
For example:

• Reusing an email signature.
• Moving data between spreadsheets. […]

I’m going to spare everyone the 12(!) other points it was making. May its GPUs all burn out and its power supply be cut by angry neighbours.

@moonrabbit @troublewithwords