It's rude to show AI output to people

Someone telling you about a conversation they had with ChatGPT is the new telling someone about your dream last night (which sucks because I’ve had a lot of conversations I wanna share lol).

Eh. It's more like I asked my drunk uncle, and he sounded really confident when he told me X.

I think it's different to talk about a conversation with AI versus just passing the AI output to someone directly.

The former is like "hey, I had this experience, here's what it was about, what I learned and how it affected me" which is a very human experience and totally valid to share. The latter is like "I created some input, here's the output, now I want you reflect and/or act on it".

For example I've used Claude and ChatGPT to reflect and chat about life experiences and left feeling like I gained something, and sometimes I'll talk to my friends or SO about it. But I'd never share the transcript unless they asked for it.

This is the same sentiment I have.

It feels really interesting to the person who experienced it, not so much to the listener. Sometimes it can be fun to share because it gives you a glimmer of insight into how someone else's mind works, but the actual content is never really the point.

If anything they share the same hallucinatory quality - ie: hallucinations don't have essential content, which is kind of the point of communication.

Hm. Kinda, though at least with the dream it was your brain generating it. Well, parts of your brain while other parts were switched off, and the on parts were operating in a different mode than usual, but all that just means it's fun to try to get insight into someone else's head by reading (way too many) things into thir dreams.

With ChatGPT, it's the output of the pickled brains of millions of past internet users, staring at the prompt from your brain and free-associating. Not quite the same thing!

This is what valid LLM use looks like.

Sadly many people don't seem interested in even admitting the existence of the distinction.

Yeah. We can't share dreams, but the equivalent would be if we made our subject sit down and put on a video of our dreams. it went from this potential 2 way conversation to essentially giving one person homework to review before commenting to the other person.