Busted Hat Company

[Judgmentalist]

People use AI for all kinds of stuff, but in this context,

I use ChatGPT—basically you paste text in and it can clean it up, shorten it, or reword it. It doesn’t really care if the grammar’s rough or there’s slang—it just figures out what you meant and smooths it out.


Microsoft has the same idea built right into their products now with Microsoft Copilot. In Word, Outlook, Teams, etc., you can highlight text, hit a button, and it’ll rewrite it for you. So realistically, anyone on a PC can do this—copy, paste, “make this sound better,” done.

Where it falls apart a bit:

• It has a recognizable tone if you just take the first draft. Kind of polished but generic.
• It can miss nuance—especially sarcasm, humor, or when you’re trying to sound like yourself instead of “professional.”
• It’ll sometimes be confident and wrong, especially if you’re asking it for facts instead of just rewriting something.
• It doesn’t really “know” anything—it’s just predicting what sounds right, so you still have to use judgment.

So the way most people use it well is as a draft tool, not a final product. Clean it up, then rewrite it so it actually sounds like you.

That was written by ChatGPT, for example. It also massively stinks sometimes. It will misunderstand things, make connections that aren’t there, make assumptions that aren’t supported, and a bunch of other major screw ups. What I mostly think it is good at is as a data aggregator. It can read a lot faster than I can. A human has to be involved in parsing the data, and AI absolutely stinks at telling fantasy from reality.

 

[Darrell2688]

People use AI for all kinds of stuff, but in this context,

I use ChatGPT—basically you paste text in and it can clean it up, shorten it, or reword it. It doesn’t really care if the grammar’s rough or there’s slang—it just figures out what you meant and smooths it out.


Microsoft has the same idea built right into their products now with Microsoft Copilot. In Word, Outlook, Teams, etc., you can highlight text, hit a button, and it’ll rewrite it for you. So realistically, anyone on a PC can do this—copy, paste, “make this sound better,” done.

Where it falls apart a bit:

• It has a recognizable tone if you just take the first draft. Kind of polished but generic.
• It can miss nuance—especially sarcasm, humor, or when you’re trying to sound like yourself instead of “professional.”
• It’ll sometimes be confident and wrong, especially if you’re asking it for facts instead of just rewriting something.
• It doesn’t really “know” anything—it’s just predicting what sounds right, so you still have to use judgment.

So the way most people use it well is as a draft tool, not a final product. Clean it up, then rewrite it so it actually sounds like you.

When I have been talking or texting with a person that is a hatter, a professional at their hat making art, I will do a copy and paste into a text document in MS Word and there have been times when co-pilot pops up wanting to help, that interference from MS Word just makes me mad, I just shut that thing down and resume what I was doing. I don't mind the spelling correction, or the correct punctuation, but for a computer to refrase what I am putting down just makes me mad. A lot of time I will check the spelling myself, I like to use my head, correcting my mistakes along the way, keeps my brain active.

 

[Darrell2688]

May Everyone have a Great Weekend and an Even Better Year,

Darrell

 

[Darrell2688]

Hello Fedora Fans,

I had some trouble with my login today on the Lounge, I received a page that displayed the heading oopssss, we rean into a problem, after receiving that a couple of times I decided to ask Microsoft Co Pilot a question, I ask which on line forum has the best information about making fedora hats, The Fedora Lounge is tops and I ask AI to display everything that was available, then clicked on a forum page link, then I was able to login. One way to work around the problem.


Ebay has started something new, every time that I login now I have to enter all of the login information and now
Ebay has set it up so you have to verify your login with a text message from them before you can gain access to your listings.


Interesting, maybe time to ask Co-Pilot what happen with the Ebay website this past weekend??
Try asking Co Pilot, you will get a full report on the Ebay problem.

Co Pilot will even help with instructions on making a fedora.

Any thoughts,
Darrell

 

[jeffgarf]

Hello Fedora Fans,

I had some trouble with my login today on the Lounge, I received a page that displayed the heading oopssss, we rean into a problem, after receiving that a couple of times I decided to ask Microsoft Co Pilot a question, I ask which on line forum has the best information about making fedora hats, The Fedora Lounge is tops and I ask AI to display everything that was available, then clicked on a forum page link, then I was able to login. One way to work around the problem.

Ebay has set it up so you have to verify your login with a text message from them before you can gain access to your listings.

Interesting, maybe time to ask Co-Pilot what happen with the Ebay website this past weekend??

Any thoughts,
Darrell

That is an interesting workaround. I'll have to give it a shot. I haven't had any issues with my eBay listings since the site was DDOS attacked.