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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by cryptonym on Thursday October 31, 2024 @06:58AM (#42005531)
Next human will put the code in a prompt and ask what it does. Chinese Whispers.
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by Aachen on Thursday October 31, 2024 @07:31AM (#42005723)
I tried making a meme some months ago with exactly this idea, but for emails. One person would tell an LLM "answer that I'm fine with either option" and sends a 5 KB email, in response to which the recipient receives it and gets the automatic summary function to tell them (in a good case) "they're happy either way" or (in a bad case) "they don't give a damn". It didn't really work, too complex for meme format as far as my abilities went, but yeah the bad translator effect is something I'm very much expecting from people who use an LLM without disclosing it
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by _heimdall on Thursday October 31, 2024 @08:39AM (#42006278)
If someone is going to use an LLM to send me an email, I'd much rather them just send me the prompt directly. For the LLM message to be useful the prompt would have included all the context and details anyway, I don't need an LLM to make it longer and sound more "professional" or polite.
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by Aachen on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:43AM (#42007422)
That is actually exactly my unstated point / the awareness I was hoping to achieve by trying to make that meme :D
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by mithametacs on Thursday October 31, 2024 @12:58PM (#42008732)
Not necessarily. Your prompt could include instructions to gather information from your emails and address book to tell your friend about all the relevant contacts you know in the shoe industry.
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by _heimdall on Thursday October 31, 2024 @09:36PM (#42013263)
Well that sounds reasonable enough. My only request is that you send me the prompt and let me decide if I want to comply...informed consent!
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by rty32 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @09:34AM (#42006754)
Wow, I love good, original programming jokes like these, even the ideas of the jokes. I used to browse r/ProgrammerHumor frequently, but it is too repetitive -- mostly recycled memes and there is anything new.

This is one that I really liked: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/l5gg3t/thi...

Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by alexxys on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @07:48PM (#42056517)
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by lupire on Thursday October 31, 2024 @07:50AM (#42005867)
(No need to Orientalize to defamiarize, especially when a huge fraction of the audience is Chinese, so Orientalizing doesn't defamiliarize. Game of Whispers or Telephone works fine.)
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by protomolecule on Thursday October 31, 2024 @09:09AM (#42006549)
Do the Chinese call it English Whispers?
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by ahoka on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:08AM (#42007078)
It’s all Greek to them.
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by tessierashpool on Thursday October 31, 2024 @11:29AM (#42007887)
Chinese-Americans, at least, call it a game of Telephone, like everyone else in the English-speaking world except for the actual English.

We call it “Telephone” because “Chinese Whispers” not only sounds racist, it is also super confusing. You need a lot of cultural context to understand the particular way in which Chinese whispers would be different from any other set of whispers.

Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by tessierashpool on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @01:54PM (#42128792)
I happened to re-read this, and to be clear, I'm not Chinese-American. the "we" there means "everyone else in the English-speaking world except for the actual English."
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by cryptonym on Monday November 04, 2024 @03:30AM (#42039642)
Pardon my French.