The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.

[albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz]

@AlSweigart

This prompt ended up in a textbook? Somebody got paid for this, and perhaps even someone else got paid to edit it?

[defuneste@fosstodon.org]

@AlSweigart name and shame (at least I want to avoid those authors..)

[tedmielczarek@mastodon.social]

@AlSweigart if they can't be bothered to write it why would anyone bother to read it?

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@AlSweigart the fact that this is physically on paper really feels like a final insult

[quantensalat@scicomm.xyz]

@AlSweigart Hey if I have to read it in the end I might as well write it :))

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@AlSweigart

Expose the source! (probably, I can think of very few reasons not to)

How annoying.

[pythonbynight@hachyderm.io]

@glyph @AlSweigart I feel like they really tried to automate the boring stuff of... writing?

(Al vs AI... First round. FIGHT!)

[jimfl@hachyderm.io]

@AlSweigart I am revising my opinions about when it becomes reasonable to burn books

[markc568@beige.party]

@AlSweigart The typesetting on this is complete garbage as well. Someone just copied/pasted all of this and called it good.

Of course when your end user is required to purchase your product, it probably doesn’t matter if it’s totally shit.

[lipow@norden.social]

@AlSweigart Well, as I always say: why read something that no-one cared enough to write?

[helenfernanda@social.vivaldi.net]

@AlSweigart Livro de papel interativo. É só perguntar que ele responde pra você.

[alsweigart@mastodon.social]

@glyph Oh, but if you want one more insult:

ChatGPT would have caught this.

They didn't even bother to have AI edit their book.

[quantensalat@scicomm.xyz]

@glyph @AlSweigart Trees died for this... twice

[alsweigart@mastodon.social]

@pythonbynight @glyph Well that was easy.

[capeta@ursal.zone]

@AlSweigart @glyph it's the absolutely lowest effort possible

[pythonbynight@hachyderm.io]

@AlSweigart @glyph KO!

[odd@mstdn.social]

@AlSweigart i just imagined the betrayal I'd feel if I went out of my way to buy a physical textbook, start reading it expecting to learning something that was written there by a fellow human being who was as excited to write all this...

...only to learn nothing I've read meant anything. It was all hallucinations. I'd be so angry and disappointed.

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@AlSweigart
Text not worth writing are texts not worth reading.

[cczona@hachyderm.io]

@AlSweigart so no one researched it, no one wrote it, no one copyedited it, and no one reviewed it. Let me guess: $50?

[ighostrider@mastodon.social]

@AlSweigart Bring back hooman proofreading I say! I used to proofread and typeset scientific papers and textbooks, we would get charged a whole £1 per mistake that we had missed, including even for one lowly comma. One company we worked for moved to China and India and paid the workers there next to nothing. We gave up as freelancers soon after this. Took me years to come to terms with the fact that everything I bought or touched had text with glaring mistakes! Now, however I don't give a fuck