Dr. Damien P. Williams, MagusMay 27, 2023

Hey y'all, i know you know this, but while you definitely shouldn't use GPTs for legal research, also don't rely on GPTs for RESEARCH, PERIOD.

They are neither giving nor TRYING to give you intersubjectively associated and derived facts; they are not even remixing factual CONCEPTS into new forms.

They are modelling human biases out into digestible bullshit with a statistically-determined high probability of being swallowed.

That is all.

They don't have to be this way, but, at present, the people making them have no incentive to change them. So. Don't lean on them for fact stuff. It's not what they do.

Show threadThe FrogMay 27, 2023

@Wolven

The worse problem about it is that some clever experts in SEO will use it to generate pages and pages of content based on current search trends, flood the searches to artificially inflate traffic to their site and bumping out many legitimate pages providing the accurate information users are looking for.

Show threadDr. Damien P. Williams, MagusMay 27, 2023
@Lily_and_Frog very much already happening, yes. And with Microsoft integrating openAI tools directly into the windows environment, it's going to get even worse, real fast.
Show threadThe Frog

@Wolven

indeed.

It's flooding publishers with shit.
It's flooding music streaming services with shit.
It's flooding Amazon and Kindle with shit.

I experienced it yesterday as I was doing some html (I'm really really novice at it) and I had a simple question. At least two of the links I visited from bing were unreadable waffle that might or might not answered my question and very possibly generated by chat GPT.

Even if one tries to avoid it, it's still imposed on us.

May 27, 2023 at 9:47pmWeb