Anne Hathaway says she was spammed with ChatGPT-written thank you notes after hiring for a recent role: "Nobody on that list gets that job"

3 days ago by sanitation to c/technology

Anne Hathaway received the same AI-written thank you note from every candidate—and Meryl Streep said what every boss is thinking: “That’s just tragic.”

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anothermember 7 points 3 days ago

Something is wrong here, LLMs won't spit out the same word-for-word response for the same prompt that's not how they work.

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hperrin 2 points 3 days ago

You are right, but you are also wrong. If they’re given the same seed, they certainly will. They are 100% deterministic. But in reality, the seed is randomly generated, so yeah, it won’t be exactly the same every time.

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Quokka 3 points 3 days ago

Even if they had the same seed, they would all need the exact same prompt. The chances of multiple people all independently coming up with the exact same prompt is highly unlikely.

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hperrin 3 points 3 days ago

Please read the last sentence of my comment. I am not saying that the interpretation is wrong, I’m saying the statement that that’s not how LLMs work is wrong. That is how LLMs work. They are deterministic. The only reason they don’t do that in practice is because we purposefully seed them with random data to make them not do that.

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