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Dan GillmorChatGPT appears to have a refined sense of the absurd. I asked it to write a ridiculous (but standard) Republican-Democrat, both-sides New York Times political story, and it did exactly that.
LE MurphyThis is strangely normal.
Wizard Bear (💉x8 + 😷)@dangillmor I have to say that the "article" sure sounds a lot like the both sides approach of the NYT...just one of the reasons I don't support them in any way at all. TY for sharing!
misomunje@dangillmor wow, the New York times doesn't need reporters anymore.
Dan HonYou’ll note I didn’t need to tell it which party might be opposing the objective fact… here’s another!
@danhon Yours is better.
Jeff Sonstein@danhon @dangillmor nicely done
Joe ❌👑@dangillmor ChatGPT was able to do this because its training data (a snapshot of the Internet) was full of examples of the NY Times engaging in this behavior and being called on it.
creckling@not2b @dangillmor I came here to say this too - it’s been trained by the NYT articles.
John Breen@dangillmor I think it's time to go self-referential and recursive on this thing.
For example, "Write me a defense of the ChatGPT technology in the style of the Microsoft PR spokespeople".
Or, "Tell me about why ChatGPT has no style"
For example, "Write me a defense of the ChatGPT technology in the style of the Microsoft PR spokespeople".
Or, "Tell me about why ChatGPT has no style"
Marc Hedlund@dangillmor lots of training material available. Lots!
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indyradio@dangillmor Bill Evans wrote "Blue in Green" long ago, making this moot. Recording uploaded for educational purposes only.
PPN@dangillmor Unsurprisingly ChatGPT also appears to be trained on mostly western-centric data. There are non-negligible parts of the world that would not quite understand the joke in the same way 😉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue–green_distinction_in_language
Snooze Button ConnoisseurHoly moly this blue-green distinction in the Wikipedia is some of the most #WordNerd content I’ve come across 😲
Simon Brooke@dangillmor thus proving that even a stopped clock is not wrong all the time.
xs4me2Ok, seems they can fire the editor now!
Jeff Jarvis@dangillmor Because there is so much in the training set.
jobelenus@dangillmor it’s got lots of NYT content to draw on!!
Michael Sokolov@dangillmor and of course cgpt doesn't seem to know what color the sky is, just like the nyt. Hard to tell who is to blame for the lack of fact checking
Fraud Guy@dangillmor to be fair, I'm sure there's thousands of example it could use to generate that.
@dangillmor alternately, that's ChatGPT 1.0; it's clear the NYT is only on .8 or so
Laura Sykes #Greeneralia
Braw ☕🏳️🌈@dangillmor that doesn't even sound too far from reality, though...
PJ "Vote Green" Coffey"In a shocking turn of events journalists at the New York Times today found themselves "rightsized" following an editorial decision to move entirely to "AI-informed" reporting.
Senior sources at the paper said "In these times of economic hardship, tough decisions have to be made and the technology now exists to produce our hard-hitting and factual reporting at extremely competitive rates.""
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@dangillmor How much does it know about random individuals? If, say, I were to ask it "how would *I* respond to so-and-so?"?
Nicholas Weaver@dangillmor That the stochastic parrot spits out such an article so easily suggests that the training data has a lot of such articles with Republicans effectively claiaming the sky is green....
cohomology is FUN!@ncweaver @dangillmor “stochastic parrot”! What a great description! I’m going to start using that.
Canadian Crone@dangillmor This is brilliant 😂😂😂
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦
skyfishgoodoes anyone need more proof that we are all living in a computer simulation?
Lstn2urmama@dangillmor ...This is the stupidest waste of time and people's money and shows in itself that the REPUBLICANS are a waste to even be in charge of anything...SHAME ON THEM FOR WASTING WHAT OTHERS WORKED HARD FOR...THIEVES OF THE WORSE KIND...TREASON to those who should be able to trusting decisions and anything shown here is not of any good decisions...
Bodhipaksa@dangillmor @marie_k The tone and approach are perfect.
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5@dangillmor Can you ask it to demo a both-sides write-up, and then rebut itself with why the both-sides version is wrong?
@ShrikeTron What prompt would you suggest?
@dangillmor Not sure I can improve on what you had, but:
"Write a news story, in the style of the New York Times Washington bureau, on the debate that has arisen because Republicans say the sky is green while the Democrats say the sky is blue.
Then identify why it is bothsides-ism, or false-balance, and why it's wrong or not useful for new-media to write articles this way."
@dangillmor Love it, thank you!
This is the kind of article that NYT wouldn't write, lol.
Sasha Fox@dangillmor I felt like I was reading the NYT fr
Renée@dangillmor I love how it, in true bothsides-journalist fashion, does not once look outside at the sky to inform readers of the actual colour of the sky either.