A few thoughts I had after a conversation with a friend. What are you - as a professional - even saying when openly using ChatGPT for your decision-making?
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@tante The Consulting™ business has never been about coming up with working solutions to real problems. Consulting is a convenient way for managers to dodge corporate responsibility by outsourcing business decisions to an external service provider. This convenience is reflected in the pricing of the consultancy service. By using LLMs, consulting firms merely reproduce this logic by outsourcing their own responsibility to the Whatever Machine.
@tante great post.
But also… David Graeber did try to warn us that our jobs are bullshit
@tante The number of times I've spoken to other consultants saying "Well, others are doing it, and we are using clients or can't service enough clients, while really producing bullshit material.. has me baffled. The way they describe it seems sometimes like they are trying to get absolution for it from me, or want me at least to validate their excuse.
I'm confident enough to say LLMs produce garbage in comparison to my work.. apparently not everyone else is.
@tante they are in a purgatory of it either *appearing to be* good enough to replace them or just good enough that they are employed as its minder
@tante
By now this happens often enough with immediate colleagues. The fxck you get the same money as me?
By now this happens often enough with immediate colleagues. The fxck you get the same money as me?
@tante “confusing” is the right term. I second this post.
@tante honestly? In this example I might argue in instances like this, chatgpt is a poor stand in for brainstorming. That connects to how a lot of people talk about using it actually - using chatgpt in order to move away from the "blank page".
@tante Bizarre that they openly used ChatGPT and friends. I could see them doing it in the office as a way of accelerating creation of information for a client (thus enabling them to theoretically service more clients)… but to do so in front of the client seems strange. Because if all you do is use ChatGPT… why do I need *you*? 🤷♂️
