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   Em :official_verified: (em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 16:32:43 JST Em :official_verified:

   New word proposition: Botsplain

   When you ask a question and instead of genuinely trying to answer or simply admitting "I don't know" someone asks a generative AI and feed you that garbage answer against your consent.

   #NoAI #AI

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     dragonfi (dragonfi@social.jsteuernagel.de)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 21:19:17 JST dragonfi

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     @Em0nM4stodon Any time someone tells me something not immediately obvious, I ask for sources and citations. Most of the time their sources are not even Large Language Models, but they still can't answer it.

     At that point, I usually just say: "And what am I supposed to do with this contextless, sourceless, unverified statement?".

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     aaron (fireborn@dragonscave.space)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 21:21:30 JST aaron

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     @Em0nM4stodon I've been using botsplaining for a while now – usually in response to emails where someone has clearly just dumped my email asking a question into an llm. Love the word