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No. Random employees have a well-understood distribution of mostly normal human errors of certain types and estimated severity, relative to unattended LLM which has a poorly-understood distribution of errors in both type and severity. (“SolidGoldMagikarp”.)


copy&paste errors are exactly what human employees are good at. this could very easily be the result of a bad copy&paste by a human into a form. especially if the copy&paste text is in a language not understood by the human employee. to them, it might look just like one of the other hundreds of search term word salad used as titles


Whether it’s human or not is irrelevant to the point: human beings fail much more predictably.

When the same search term salad is presented hundreds of times for copy paste, a human would notice and have an opportunity to ask a supervisor.

A chatbot automation would not notice the repetition unless it had been coded to detect repetition, and/or to reject the ChatGPT refusal message.

Ironically, it was probably an automation coded by ChatGPT.




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