Sat through a whole workshop on AI automation before realizing the speaker was reading off ChatGPT responses the whole time

I went to this "AI innovation summit" in Phoenix last month, paid 50 bucks for a ticket. The keynote guy was showing off this fancy workflow builder, but I noticed he kept pausing awkwardly between sentences. After his third demo failed, someone in the crowd yelled "just ask ChatGPT how to fix it" and the dude actually typed it into his phone. Turns out his whole presentation was generated by AI, including the Q&A script he had tucked in his pocket. Has anyone else seen this kind of thing at local tech events, where people are just regurgitating chatbot answers and calling it expertise?

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tarag282mo agoMost Upvoted

...and the worst part is you can't even call them out because they get all defensive about it. I saw this girl at a meetup who was supposedly a "prompt engineer" but every answer she gave sounded like a dictionary had a stroke. Watched her fumble during a live demo and she literally whispered "rewrite that but make it sound more human" into her phone.

susana662mo ago

I mean, I get the frustration but I kinda feel bad for her - being a "prompt engineer" is such a new thing that nobody really knows what they're doing yet. We're all basically just figuring it out as we go and that's okay.

rileyellis1mo ago

Did you catch that article about prompt engineers getting out-prompted by regular users in blind tests? Kinda makes you wonder if the job title is just a fancy way of saying "person who types questions at a computer.