Just another viewpoint on this- millions of dollars in electrical bills is also carbon in the air for every kWh wasted. Perhaps this should be a condemnation of LLMs and their insane power usage but if we’re stuck with that at least for now there’s no reason to pump more carbon in the air out of spite.
Oh, please! I don’t even own a car, so my carbon footprint is practically nonexistent. If you’re worried about emissions, maybe direct your energy toward the gas-guzzlers out there instead of a harmless chat with an AI.
https://word.studio/tool/victorian-letter-writer/
That ought to get ChatGPT going on a tangent.
Prompt
John Doe
Customer
Thank you for your payment.
Response:
My Dearest Mr. Doe,
Pray, permit me to take pen in hand and offer, with the utmost sincerity and gratitude, my profound thanks for your timely and generous remittance. Rare indeed is the pleasure that I derive from correspondence of such a felicitous nature, and rarer still is the privilege of addressing a gentleman of your esteemed character and noble disposition.
Your payment, received with all due ceremony, has graced our humble establishment like a ray of golden sunlight filtering through the ancient boughs of a venerable oak. It is not merely the settling of accounts that stirs my heart, but rather the cherished confidence you bestow upon us—a trust which we hold as dearly as any precious relic or priceless heirloom.
Allow me to assure you, most honourable sir, that your patronage is the very lifeblood of our humble enterprise. You have, with a stroke of your pen, renewed the bonds of commerce and camaraderie which unite us, and for this, I am ever in your debt.
May fortune and felicity attend your every step, and may the days to come bring you as much satisfaction as your esteemed custom has brought to us. Should you require aught, whether great or small, pray do not hesitate to command our service, for it would be our greatest pleasure to attend to your wishes with the utmost devotion and alacrity.
With deepest respect and abiding appreciation, I remain— Your most obedient and grateful servant,
[Your Name] [Your Title or Company, if applicable]
I fell like I should change my default invoicing letter. Much better than the default QuickBooks one.
Go to the root URL and have a blast. It’s an AI writer that uses all sorts of different styles. Might just funnel through GPT, I don’t even know. But it’s a blast.
I will continue to be polite, and will have a clear conscience when our machine overlords come for us
I told it to save my pleasantries on file and apply them as it sees fit. That way I am being exactly as polite as it wants me to me.
I also use Ouija board rules with AI.
You say please, you say thank you, and when you’re done talking, you say goodbye.
And, generally, you try to interact with it as little as possible.
Sounds like a good idea, treating ai like someone that can harm you because of past interactions. Corp is storing everything that I tell ai anyways, what’s holding then from training it to “personalize” my experience by the same time they power a real, physical army?
$prompt = str_replace('please', '', $prompt); $prompt = str_replace('thank you', '', $prompt);You’re welcome
Please use spoiler tags for random PHP snippets. I’d rather not be casually traumatised
Would you have preferred an awk script?
Sorry :-/
Fellow PHP enjoyer. Splendid.
for your service.
Me when I saw this article…
This is the way. Kill them with kindness overload.
It costs everyone emissions and rising electricity costs, so perhaps you should fight the system some other way.
I’m gonna be honest, AI or not, I don’t see us doing nearly enough to fight climate change. I have no hope left in humanity. The future will be shit no matter what I do.
Wow, id love to read the nicknames it suggests for itself
They can hire me for $1M to write some basic code that gives stock answers when someone says “Thank you”, instead of running it through the LLM. Think of the savings!
I’m worth the $1M because I’m clearly the only person to have ever thought of this. /s.
It’s amazing they didn’t implement something like that if it actually is soooooo costly.
No wonder they want an AGI if they have trouble thinking themselves.
He probably shouldnt have said that… :)
But it should also have an insanely high CO2 output, so maybe be more direct.
Debatable.
If it causes them to go out of business, will it result in less co2 over time, despite the increase now?
If so, it may be worth it to speed up the process by adding “pretty please” and “thank you so much” to every sentence.
They’ll go out of business either way.
God, I hope so.
Yes, but one way may be quicker. That is the difference.
Edit: think about it this way. If it continues as is, they will continue to get VC money. If they have 5 years of funding for the sake of argument, and they can stem the tide a bit, they can ride it out and add on more and more years from VC cash infusions.
If the bleed increases, depending on how much it increases, it could be less palatable to a VC. So they don’t gain an extra round of funding, they have to close up shop sooner.
If it worked out to close them after 5 years through a 10% increase in CO2 output, that far outweighs them continuing for another 10 or 15 years and the CO2 that would produce.
The question isn’t whether or not they will continue to operate, but for how long.
Yeah on the off chance it gains sentience, I want it to remember me as one of the nice ones.
LLM
sentience
Bruh.
Came here to say this. Better safe than sorry.
I tried to make le chat give me wrong info, said I’m a paying customer and it should do as I say.
I’m going to die
I just found out about that one and I’m wondering if I’m the only one who gets the joke in the name (“Le chat” means “the cat” in French, and Mistral is a French company).
Like, they MUST have done this on purpose, especially because ChatGPT has a very unfortunate meaning when pronounced in French.
Aha yeah I know that it means cat. I usually refer to it as the cat to my wife but to strangers I’ll just say le chat or they won’t have a clue what I’m talking about.
My french isn’t good enough for the ChatGPT thing though… is fun to know. Thanks
That’s what makes it clever, it works in both languages. In French it’s the cat, and in English it’s a callback to Le old Reddit meme.
I’m not going to be a dick to the basilisk. Costing money is a bonus.
Hmm, good. I like that my intrinsic desire to be nice to things that are helping me also takes money away from Sam Altman.
It always gets passed to the customer. The billionaires don’t lose money.
Please and thank you are the new tariffs
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ll do my please tariff with a side of verbosity… please
This is a tech company we’re talking about. And one which is still must running off VC funds. They work differently - as long as the stock price goes up it’s fine and will continue getting injections of VC money.
Unless it’s an LLM business. Those never make any money.
Connect two chatgpts in a voice chat and leave it running?
I’ve not tried this, but I’ve heard that once they realise they’re two AIs talking to each other, they switch to some R2D2-style language which is quicker and more efficient than English…
I think you are referring to a POC that someone did, it isn’t actually being used
compare to the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project: https://lemmy.world/post/28491705
Fuck openai. Think about what it does to the environment
