Counter point - the internet is full of people who will hit you with an opinion or criticism qualified by zero effort, evidence, or critical thinking, to the point you aren’t even sure if they’re a person or just a bot that throws out dumb “psychic reading” quality nonsense.
I think an appropriate response to this is to demonstrate that you’re allowing AI to answer their question, rather than involve your own cognitive time. It’s basically the same thing as letting your phone answer a suspicious call with a generic “please state your name and why you’re calling”. It doesn’t just save you time, it very deliberately declares a boundary that says “you can waste your time on this bot, but you’re not getting my time”.
Like I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember “let me google that for you”, but it’s basically that.
or you could waste even less time and not respond, or you could waste less time and resources by just sending them a lmgtfy link.
you shouldn’t need ai to be snarky unless you’re really dumb. like this is still placing your cognitive load on ai. that’s still a much worse decision than just not responding. the answer to bots on the internet is not more bots. unless you wanna arms race this place out of use.
Honestly, I know that people dislike twitter/X, but the ability to summon grok in the comments to look up info that people are arguing about is a cool feature. It’s like an anti “firehose of falsehood” tool.
Counter point - the internet is full of people who will hit you with an opinion or criticism qualified by zero effort, evidence, or critical thinking, to the point you aren’t even sure if they’re a person or just a bot that throws out dumb “psychic reading” quality nonsense.
I think an appropriate response to this is to demonstrate that you’re allowing AI to answer their question, rather than involve your own cognitive time. It’s basically the same thing as letting your phone answer a suspicious call with a generic “please state your name and why you’re calling”. It doesn’t just save you time, it very deliberately declares a boundary that says “you can waste your time on this bot, but you’re not getting my time”.
Like I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember “let me google that for you”, but it’s basically that.
or you could waste even less time and not respond, or you could waste less time and resources by just sending them a lmgtfy link.
you shouldn’t need ai to be snarky unless you’re really dumb. like this is still placing your cognitive load on ai. that’s still a much worse decision than just not responding. the answer to bots on the internet is not more bots. unless you wanna arms race this place out of use.
No, they won’t.
Honestly, I know that people dislike twitter/X, but the ability to summon grok in the comments to look up info that people are arguing about is a cool feature. It’s like an anti “firehose of falsehood” tool.
That would only work if it was trained accurately and not tweaked to favour clearly false information by it’s creator.
I also completely trust “MechaHitler” when it tells me it’s daddy has 289TB of CSA.