Faced with new legislation, Iowa’s Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books ‘contain a description or depiction of a sex act.’

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      1 year ago

      Can we not start with the ‘/s’ horseshit on this site? It’s absolutely awful and unnecessary.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah because text is a form of communication that is really easy to get subtext/tone from /s

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          1 year ago

          Nah, you’re right it’s utterly impossible to imply sarcasm. It is so excruciatingly hard that we have to ruin the sarcasm in order to point it out, but you know what? Better that than inflict the mental trauma of misunderstanding on someone! God knows how much PTSD you’ve avoided triggering in others. You truly are a hero.

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            1 year ago

            Is this really that much of an issue? Chill out buddy. It’s text on a website. We’re not murdering anyone.

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        1 year ago

        tone indicators are useful for indicating tone. if you don’t want to use them, don’t, but anyone that wants to will, and those that need them will apreciate them. /srs

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          How useful it is to change the tone in order to identify it, not obnoxious in the slightest. Save yourself a few scary downvotes, though, don’t you? So I guess it’s worth it.