Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.
Tech Company: At long last, we have created a tool to generate Torment Nexuses from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus.
Everyone: why the fuck did you do that--
Tech Company: At long last, we have created Torment Nexus Detector, to distinguish between automatically generated Torment Nexuses and human-created Torment Nexuses.
h/t to Alex Blechman
This is a very good, accessible explanation of the intellectual fraud at the heart of #ChatGPT. Especially w/r/t the downplaying of the human labour needed for it to function at all:
“So, not only is ChatGPT not human, but in order to for it to appear human, its creators had to dehumanize real humans. … Left without guardrails and handlers, ChatGPT wouldn’t know enough to not ape and amplify the worst of the world.”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-chatgpt-is-a-reverse-mechanical-turk/
The recently-launched chatbot has convinced users that it thinks like a person, but its interior is filled with an arcane statistical soup of code and complex linguistic connections
I'm older so I remember things. Everything you see happening today should be understood this way:
The top tax rate used to be 90% in order to prevent the really rich from destroying democracy.
The corporate tax rate was 50% because corporations exist to serve society.
AND the inheritance tax was really high to keep family dynasties from gaining power over us.
Dan Hon
Blayne Haggart
Dave Johnson