These kind of technologies are a natural response to content-as-commodity—SEO, content marketing, the YouTube algorithm, influencer culture etc.

It doesn't matter that the content is bullshit, X units of content are needed, humans are expensive, let's have a machine that churns out content. Doesn't have to be true, doesn't need to have passed through an actual brain or have had any connection with reality.

"Thanks, I hate it."

OpenAI made a system for being wrong much more efficiently, delighting politicians, propagandists and bullshitters, and scaring the living crap out of everyone with any commitment to the general idea that there are things which are true in a broadly coherent reality that's shared between human beings.

(Also, these are the same people who are worried about existential risk, in as much as that risk involves weird sci-fi like Roko's basilisk but not the actual risk of stuff like climate change.)

@tommorris I have a simple test to show people how wrong the AI is that doesn't require deep domain knowledge:

Ask for works of classical English/German/Spanish literature written by a woman.

That the result is wrong will be immediately obvious.

@tommorris but this question still illustrates it pretty well:
> Who were female chinese politicans

I chose Chinese politicians because ChatGPT will not have much training on chinese sources (as they'd have to have been translated to English or another latin script language)

@tommorris although asking for Finnish politicans is giving me an even more telling response:

Finland has had many significant female politicians, including Martti Ahtisaari, who was the President of Finland from 1994 to 2000 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008; Tarja Halonen, who was the first female President of Finland and served from 2000 to 2012;

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@tommorris

and Anneli Jäätteenmäki, who was the first female Prime Minister of Finland and served from 2003 to 2007. Other notable female politicians from Finland include Elisabeth Rehn, who was the first female Defense Minister of Finland, and Liisa Hyssälä, who was the first female Speaker of the Parliament of Finland

@lritter @tommorris

Martti Ahtisaari is supposed to be a woman serving as president before the first woman serving as president.

@lritter @WAHa_06x36 @tommorris I'm making it's origin clear.

But I don't think that'll always be the case.

And the ability to create convincing text on mass where facts and fiction are so close to each - shouldn't that give pause?