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ChatGPT prompt: Write a comment in the style of OzarkHillbilly for Outside the Beltway blog.
Well dang, I gotta tell ya, this here post sure stirred up a ruckus in my neck of the woods. Seems folks been gettin’ all fired up about what’s happenin’ in them big city slicker places. But let me tell ya somethin’, out here in the sticks, we just keep on keepin’ on, takin’ care of our own.
Now I ain’t sayin’ we don’t care ’bout what’s goin’ on in the world. Shoot, we got TVs and radios just like everybody else. But we also got a different way of lookin’ at things. We don’t put much stock in them politicians and their fancy talkin’, ’cause they don’t really understand what it’s like to be out here in the real world.
So while y’all city folk might be all up in arms about this and that, we’ll just be over here tendin’ to our crops and our livestock, and helpin’ out our neighbors when they need it. Ain’t no need to get all worked up when you got good country livin’ to keep you grounded.
Take it from me, OzarkHillbilly, life is simple out here, and that’s the way we like it.
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@CSK: Indeed! I’m not sure that academe needs to go into full panic mode about ChatGPT quite yet. (And if it does, that panic is more a comment of academe than about Chat GPT, which can’t even distinguish between a comment in the style of an Ozark hillbilly and OtB’s Ozark Hillbilly. Question: Does ChatGPT’s “mistake” represent a interpretation problem or a syntax problem?)
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It means it doesn’t do its homework. Considering the most likely users…deliciously ironic.
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So, I went to Costco to get a tire replaced. I got there at 10:25. I waited maybe ten minutes for the Costco employee to solve an issue with a customer, then ordered the new tire.
He told me it would take between 4 and 5 hours. Or that I could set an appointment for tomorrow at 1 pm. Neither option worked for me. As I was already there, I decided to wait the inordinately long time estimated. I was assured it would take that long, as they are short-staffed and there were two cars ahead of mine. Four hours minimum.
I had a coffee with me I picked up on the way, so I sat on a bench by the parking lot to drink it, and play games on my phone. By 11:05 I saw they were servicing my car. by 11:35, they were finished. By 11:40 I got it back, signed the paperwork, and was ready to go.
As I’m sure the estimate was accurate, it must have taken 4 hours. But in my frame of reference, under a quarter of that time passed. Therefore, reverse time dilation.
I’ll write it up with some phony graphs and a few equations, and await a Noble Prize 😀
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@Kathy:
As I’m sure the estimate was accurate, it must have taken 4 hours. But in my frame of reference, under a quarter of that time passed. Therefore, reverse time dilation.
Please don’t take offense, but … you’re the man!
I will write a letter on your behalf to the Nobel Committee. -
Woah, the NY Times is running a story about Ben Barnes, who has decided to tell the truth about what happened with the Iranian hostages in 1980. Basically, the October Surprise happened. Reagan and Casey schemed to get the Iranians to hold the hostages’ until after the election, and Barnes was part of it. He’s telling the story because Jimmy Carter is dying.
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@al Ameda:
Thank you. I appreciate it.
But I doubt the Nobel committee has any say in the awarding of the Noble Prize for Phony Physics.
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@CSK: Sure, but that doesn’t answer the question of why it chooses that rather than to go to it’s “collected knowledge” (from the internet) of what Ozark’s writing is like.
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@dazedandconfused: Ayup! Again explaining why academe doesn’t need to go into full panic mode quite yet. The number of sources for essays that read like somebody who didn’t do the homework is really large and probably not even worth checking for plagiarism over.
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In this case, it seems not to have bothered to tap its vein of collected knowledge.
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