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It's rude to show AI output to people

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321 points distantprovince | 3 comments | 19 Jul 25 16:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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gigatree ◴[19 Jul 25 17:41 UTC] No.44617569[source]▶
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).
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1. accrual ◴[19 Jul 25 18:09 UTC] No.44617866[source]▶
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.

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2. sfink ◴[19 Jul 25 23:52 UTC] No.44620595[source]▶
This is what valid LLM use looks like.

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

3. johnnyanmac ◴[20 Jul 25 01:26 UTC] No.44621082[source]▶
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.