DansDeals 20th Birthday Event

[etech0]

Will there be a new DDMS post each day regarding that day's entry?

[~King Lake~]

Will there be a new DDMS post each day regarding that day's entry?

Bookmark this page. Every day it will be updated at 10am with a new giveaway and another chance to enter daily.

[TzviR]

Yes.

I'm going to do a live video on Instagram and feed an Excel doc to ChatGPT, and it'll pick the winner.

Trusting ChatGPT for this? Hopefully the name that gets picked is actually on the list 

[Yehudaa]

Yes.

I'm going to do a live video on Instagram and feed an Excel doc to ChatGPT, and it'll pick the winner.

I vote to post the video on the new DDMS whatsapp status too, for those of us not on Instagram

[Euclid]

Trusting ChatGPT for this? Hopefully the name that gets picked is actually on the list 

This.

There are websites that are built for raffle/sweepstake winner picking. Like this one:
https://wheelofnames.com/

[TzviR]

I vote to post the video on the new DDMS whatsapp status too, for those of us not on Instagram

I vote to post the video on DDF too, for those of us not on Instagram and Whatsapp

[yuneeq]

A couple questions for Dan/JJ

-Is it 20 consecutive days of deals or 20 total? Shabbos should be excluded IMHO.

-Can there be some advance reveal of what the deal will be or what type of deals? For example, if someone wants to consider booking the Zadun, but will hold back because maybe tomorrow will be a hotel deal to a place/dates that works better for them. Without spoiling the surprise, maybe you can post that you will have an amazing hotel deal to the Caribbean day 5, amazing deal to Mexico on day 10, etc.

[etech0]

Trusting ChatGPT for this? Hopefully the name that gets picked is actually on the list 

And that you aren't feeding them with personal info that they'll use for who knows what

[yuneeq]

I wanna like this, but don’t wanna mess up the count

It’s okay now it’s ruined anyways

[jj1000]

Trusting ChatGPT for this? Hopefully the name that gets picked is actually on the list 

It reads excel sheets.

[jj1000]

And that you aren't feeding them with personal info that they'll use for who knows what

Terms say, all data entry like emails stay private and get deleted after the session is closed.

[Alexsei]

Yes.

I'm going to do a live video on Instagram and feed an Excel doc to ChatGPT, and it'll pick the winner.

It's not more random then excels built in =rand... Even if it's AI...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/rand-function-4cbfa695-8869-4788-8d90-021ea9f5be73

ChatGPT will load the excel file, call random.choice() and spit it out

If you really want to use ChatGPT, just tell him the range of numbers in your excel sheet like 1-2345 and ChatGPT will give you a number you can correspond to the winner, no need to give him PII (this is best done by adding a helper column with unique IDs)

Never a good idea to upload sensitive data to a third party when the result can be easily accomplished locally.


#my_two_cents

Good read
https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-random-numbers

https://www.wolfssl.com/true-random-vs-pseudorandom-number-generation/

Point is that both are likely random enough for a sweepstakes even if they're actually predetermined, however there's no magic in ChatGPT over excel as both are PRNG

(Rabbit hole of PRNG, HRNG/TRNG)

[yelped]

A couple questions for Dan/JJ

-Is it 20 consecutive days of deals or 20 total? Shabbos should be excluded IMHO.

-Can there be some advance reveal of what the deal will be or what type of deals? For example, if someone wants to consider booking the Zadun, but will hold back because maybe tomorrow will be a hotel deal to a place/dates that works better for them. Without spoiling the surprise, maybe you can post that you will have an amazing hotel deal to the Caribbean day 5, amazing deal to Mexico on day 10, etc.

For this deal at least, you don't have to actually book, just send them an email

[etech0]

Terms say, all data entry like emails stay private and get deleted after the session is closed.

Names too?

[jj1000]

Names too?

Winner gets announced

[jj1000]

It's not more random then excels built in =rand... Even if it's AI...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/rand-function-4cbfa695-8869-4788-8d90-021ea9f5be73

ChatGPT will load the excel file, call random.choice() and spit it out

If you really want to use ChatGPT, just tell him the range of numbers in your excel sheet like 1-2345 and ChatGPT will give you a number you can correspond to the winner, no need to give him PII (this is best done by adding a helper column with unique IDs)

Never a good idea to upload sensitive data to a third party when the result can be easily accomplished locally.


#my_two_cents

Good read
https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-random-numbers

https://www.wolfssl.com/true-random-vs-pseudorandom-number-generation/

Point is that both are like random enough for a sweepstakes even if they're actually predetermined, however there's no magic in ChatGPT over excel.

(Rabbit hole of PRNG, HRNG/TRNG)

The advantage is I can live record it without showing anyone data....

[Travel Lover]

[Alexsei]

The advantage is I can live record it without showing anyone (except ChatGPTs servers) data....

FTFM...

And the disadvantage is that participants get an icky feeling about their PII being thrown around on the www.

Use ChatGPT live to give you the number that you will cross reference to the unique ID, I think participants will perfectly understand that showing more than that on a livestream isn't the best idea.

https://agileblue.com/5-things-that-you-should-never-share-with-chat-gpt/

[AsherO]

Yes.

I'm going to do a live video on Instagram and feed an Excel doc to ChatGPT, and it'll pick the winner.

Need to figure out how to hack this

[yawn]

I'm pretty sure chatgpt can get my name and email if they wanted without JJ sharing it with them. Heck there's this guy who keeps emailing me that he want 2k in bitcoin to not share embarrassing videos of me. Name and email just isn't sensitive personal info anymore.