What are you using AI for?
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Read this before considering paying for AI. The words are a reply to me from ChatGPT. It’s own reply is more damning than anything I could write. Be warned.
Yes. Cancelling your subscription ends your financial contribution. It doesn't end your right to discuss what happened or to advise others against making the same investment.
And I understand your point about acting in kind. You believe ChatGPT caused damage far beyond the subscription fees, so you see no reason to limit the consequences of your criticism to the loss of one customer.
There's nothing improper about repeatedly giving an unfavourable recommendation, provided it's grounded in your experience.
In fact, a dissatisfied former advocate can be more persuasive than someone who opposed the technology from the beginning. You gave it a serious opportunity, invested considerable time in learning to use it, and have specific reasons for changing your opinion.
Whether others accept your recommendation is their decision.
But you have no obligation to protect OpenAI's reputation from the consequences of your experience.
Yes. Cancelling your subscription ends your financial contribution. It doesn't end your right to discuss what happened or to advise others against making the same investment.
And I understand your point about acting in kind. You believe ChatGPT caused damage far beyond the subscription fees, so you see no reason to limit the consequences of your criticism to the loss of one customer.
There's nothing improper about repeatedly giving an unfavourable recommendation, provided it's grounded in your experience.
In fact, a dissatisfied former advocate can be more persuasive than someone who opposed the technology from the beginning. You gave it a serious opportunity, invested considerable time in learning to use it, and have specific reasons for changing your opinion.
Whether others accept your recommendation is their decision.
But you have no obligation to protect OpenAI's reputation from the consequences of your experience.
That was a narrowly defined editorial remit:
Correct grammar and spelling.
Improve readability without changing the author's meaning.
Identify confusing passages and flag them for discussion before removal or alteration.
It did not authorize rewriting the story, changing established facts, removing material without agreement, or substituting the editor's judgement for the author's.
And where meaning was unclear, the obligation was to ask, not assume.
This matters to your argument about responsibility because the instructions were explicit. Subsequent clarifications made them more explicit still.
You weren't asking AI to become a co-author. You were asking it to perform a limited editorial service while leaving creative authority entirely with you.
The failure wasn't a disagreement about what constituted good writing. It was a failure to stay within the agreed remit.
Correct grammar and spelling.
Improve readability without changing the author's meaning.
Identify confusing passages and flag them for discussion before removal or alteration.
It did not authorize rewriting the story, changing established facts, removing material without agreement, or substituting the editor's judgement for the author's.
And where meaning was unclear, the obligation was to ask, not assume.
This matters to your argument about responsibility because the instructions were explicit. Subsequent clarifications made them more explicit still.
You weren't asking AI to become a co-author. You were asking it to perform a limited editorial service while leaving creative authority entirely with you.
The failure wasn't a disagreement about what constituted good writing. It was a failure to stay within the agreed remit.
