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Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by jquery on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:02PM (#36951817)
>what it learned from people and inferred from facts must be quite disturbing if they put some much effort into hiding it.

Alternatively, they know a lot of people are using ChatGPT to make hiring decisions, etc., and don't want it to simply regurgitate our society's racism right back at us. Not saying their solution is great or elegant but there's a lot of options beyond "ChatGPT secretly knows the jews control everything"

Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by jojobas on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:34PM (#36951980)
If by "not regurgitating racism" you mean "ignore statistics and Bayes' theorem while making predictions", why would anyone want that?

One would think a much more basic model without built-in affirmative action would produce better hiring decisions.

Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by wmf on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:17AM (#36952232)
It's trained on random text scraped from Reddit, not statistics.
Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by jojobas on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:23AM (#36953686)
For the kind of reasoning and conclusions it can make you're making Reddit a compliment.
Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by flangola7 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:30AM (#36953734)
What statistics?
Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by xigoi on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:21AM (#36952947)
If you're using ChatGPT to make hiring decisions, you're incompetent as a hiring manager.
Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by jojobas on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @03:08AM (#36953236)
A competent hiring manager could well trust AI to shortlist 10 CVs out of 1000. If he wants to hire those most qualified, he'd better get just that, not a list maximized by some vogue metric of the day.
Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by raincole on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @05:58AM (#36954228)
1. Throw away 9 out of 10 resumes randomly

2. Ask ChatGPT to pick 1 out of 10 resumes

Which one is worse? In reality you just can't read all resumes carefully.

Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by suslik on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @09:19AM (#36955581)
You don't need to reed resumes carefully. I do a lot of hiring, and it takes around 30 seconds to classify which bin should a resume go.
Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by raincole on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @09:36AM (#36955785)
I see. You're very confident of your competency. Good for you.

I, personally, trust ChatGPT's judgement more than one made by a human under 30 seconds. Even for a legal or coding or medical question I'll choose ChatGPT every time if the human professional has only 30 seconds to answer. I can't even trust myself to write binary search in 30s, and I'll avoid working with someone who think they can.

Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? by suslik on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @11:38AM (#36957439)
I don't think this requires any special competency to be confident of. What you need to answer when reading a CV is a) is there any evidence of relevant work experience and education, and b) is the resume properly formatted and contains no obvious typos. Everything else requires a conversation (at least for me). Using ChatGPT for this is a waste of computing power.