taiyang @ taiyang @lemmy.world

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Except I've given this quiz prior to GPT and no, it wasn't once used because it's not even a current advertisement campaign. My average 19 year old usually uses examples from my influencers, for instance, so I get stuff like Hello Fresh or Better Help, and usually specific to an ad read on stream on the past couple weeks. After all, the question asks for ads they've seen and remembered.

Also, you neglect how these models get data. It's likely pulled not because it's a favorite, but because GPT steals from textbooks, blogs, etc, and those examples that would use that as a go-to (especially if the author uses 90s examples). Plus nevermind that your joe shmo Internet user isn't the same as the group I'm teaching, most of them weren't even alive when the Just Do It campaign started, lol.

It really undermines the point of coming up with your own examples and applying theory to something from their life. I am not inherently anti GPT but this is a very bad use case.

LLMs by their very nature drive towards cliche and most common answers, since they're synthesizing data. Prompts can attempt to sway it away from that, but it's ultimately a regurgitation machine.

Actual AI might be able to eventually, but it would require a lot more human like experience (and honestly, the chaos that gives us creativity). At that point it'll probably be sentient, and we'd have bigger things you worry about, lol

I have a similar background and no surprise, it's mostly a problem in my asynchronous class. The ones who have my in person lectures are much more engaged, since it is a fun topic and I don't enjoy teaching unless I'm also making them laugh. No dice with asynchronous.

And yeah, I'm also kinda doing that with my essay questions, requiring stuff you sorta can't just summarize. Important you critical thinking, even if you're not just trying to detect GPT.

I remember reading that GPT isn't really foolproof on verifying bad usage, and I am not willing to fail anyone over it unless I had to. False positives and all that. Hell, I just used GPT as a sounding board for a few new questions I'm writing, and it's advice wasn't bad. There's good ways to use it, just... you know, not so stupidly.

I'm the type to be in favor of new tech but this really is a downgrade after seeing it available for a few years. Midterms hit my classes this week and I'll be grading them next week. I'm already seeing people try to pass off GPT as their own, but the quality of answers has really dropped in the past year.

Just this last week, I was grading a quiz on persuasion and for fun, I have students pick an advertisement to analyze. You know, to personalize the experience, this was after the super bowl so we're swimming in examples. Can even be audio, like a podcast ad, or a fucking bus bench or literally anything else.

60% of them used the Nike Just Do It campaign, not even a specific commercial. I knew something was amiss, so I asked GPT what example it would probably use it asked. Sure enough, Nike Just Do It.

Why even cheat on that? The universe has a billion ad examples. You could even feed GPT one and have it analyze for you. It'd be wrong, cause you have to reference the book, but at least it'd not be at blatant.

I didn't unilaterally give them 0s but they usually got it wrong anyway so I didn't really have to. I did warn them that using that on the midterm in this way will likely get them in trouble though, as it is against the rules. I don't even care that much because again, it's usually worse quality anyway but I have to grade this stuff, I don't want suffer like a sci-fi magazine getting thousands of LLM submissions trying to win prizes.

Not a good analogy, except there is one interesting parallel. My students who overuse a calculator in stats tend to do fine on basic arithmetic but it does them a disservice when trying to do anything more elaborate. Granted, it should be able to follow PEDMAS but for whatever weird reason, it doesn't sometimes. And when there's a function that requires a sum and maybe multiple steps? Forget about it.

Similarly, GPT can make cliche copy writing, but good luck getting it to spit out anything complex. Trust me, I'm grading that drinble. So in that case, the analogy works.

I wonder if he's narcissistic enough to still at least do the election for his third term. He'd need significantly more cheating this time around to overcome the margins he's gonna lose by with all his voters dead or faces eaten by leopards.

I like the little butterfly effect details. Blazing Saddles even got a different person hired at this place.

Oh, and Godzilla is real.

We know that it'll probably be a suicide, as Windows is slowly taking it's own life as we speak.

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if in my lifetime we end up with a unified world government that excludes literally just US and Russia. Israel would be excluded too except who the hell knows what'll happen to the middle east after yet another world war.

With an airplane, yes. That's how most undocumented folks do it, after all. Lol

X is around the time FF lost it's main architect, Sakaguchi (technically sooner , but dev times I imagine it overlapped). Guys a class act that was with them since the beginning, but he started his own company after a falling out with the direction SE brass wanted to take things. He was the one pushing to always have life and death as main themes and kept certain other producers in line.

I always recall an anecdote on FF7, as him, Kitase and Nomura were working out story. Sakaguchi required a meaningful death in the plot. Kitase (who we can thank for FF6s second half) suggested the whole cast die except one who the player chooses. Nomura talked them down from that. FF7 was his baby (so much so that he's the character designer and artist), hence why he's so present on the remake. That said, they kept each other in check and Nomura gets really weird ideas (KHs being his lead, for example).

After Sakaguchi departure, 11 was modeled after EverQuest and had a newish team, 12 was written most by FFT scenario team but had a change mid devolpment midway (the SE brass wanted a plucky young protag, Vaan was late development), 13 was so overbudget that they had to make sequels to recoup costs, 14 1.0 was mostly old guard 11 people with no idea about optimization, 14 2.0 was Yoshida learning from WoW success (flaws and all) but adding "FF theme park" plus a great writing staff, 15... similar to 12 in changes mid production, but iirc it was the SE brass shoehorning bad ideas and plot required DLC, and 16 is Yoshida and his core team making a pretty solid ARPG but with some tedium due to his MMO roots (and if you like 7R you'd probably be ok with 16).

Anyone can like or dislike a game, so I'm just giving you the long range of production issues that are objectively damaging the experience. It's ok to like flawed games. I know an unhealthy amount of video game industry lore, and the biggest thing I can't even say because of an NDA. lol

(Bonus fun fact, FF6 was meant to end at the halfway point but was so ahead of schedule and funds they went ahead and created the second half. It's my favorite FF lol)

I think I'd just go to a good ol "go fuck yourself". Even if I was an AI that'd take a guy back a sec.

I wonder what BlueSky is, given it's somewhat like Lemmy's pure "enough of this crap" attitude but a little too mainstream to be this jaded.

I still think Mexico is looking pretty cool lately with their badass President.

Yeah, unfortunately with how people think, you're probably right. The average person anywhere isn't noticing a global trend here.

Did I imply that? EU has done more than the US on this issue, but to galvanize in this context means to excite or stimulate. After 3 years it's rather easy to grow complacent, and scenes like this remind people to remain pissed off.

I mean, they're super hatefilled. Just, you know, not at us usually.

Good God why would you put yourself through this to show us these screenshots. Jesus fucking Christ

I still find it ballsy af to hit up Fox News first and foremost after that episode. He understands their spin and getting ahead of it might be the best move (OAN and junk are too far gone and smaller audiences, the rest already kinda on his side).

I do hope that Trump is the galvanizing force that pushes the people of the EU (and perhaps others) towards Ukraine support, as well as everything else Trump and the right hate. The far right is gaining too much support, but if your average right leaning or moderate EU citizen sees just how bad it's working out for the US, it might chill that movement a bit. At least, I hope so.