Annalee Newitz 🍜Ever since playing with ChatGPT, I've become sensitized to the way false rationality sounds ... there's a particular vibe to what is basically coherent nonsense. And now I've started to notice when people do it too. I get this crawly ChatGPT feeling when somebody is obviously making up an "authoritative" answer to a question they know nothing about. #AI #chatgpt #psychology
Alexis Madrigal@annaleen oh man, in college we used to call this “talking a line” — and I feel like now that you’ve said it, I will never be able to think about chatbots doing anything else
Kent Brewster@alexismadrigal @annaleen yes. See also "blowing smoke," which is the polite form of "blowing smoke up your ass," which has a whole fascinating origin story all its own.