Spoke to a person today who seemingly can't answer a single question in their life without going to ChatGPT first and honestly this is starting to creep me out - what would compel you to surrender your whole mind to this thing
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I routinely have to beg folks in my chronic illness groups not to trust AI with their medical questions and they get so mad. I don't get it. Until one person said their doctor uses it. I said "fire him"
I work at the executive level in IT and my current manager uses ChatGPT for everything. Every document, every plan, all the training, our evaluations. We have been in training meetings where you can hear the AI responding and then he will just repeat it. It's extremely concerning.
Well it's more accessible and engaging than outsourcing your identity to a human celebrity, and nobody ever acted like that was weird even though celebrities are less intelligent than ChatGPT
Lol that's not a new behavior, subersion of personal identity to an outside entity is a core feature of cults. It's extremely common in humans (see organized religion and Fox News)
I'm old enough to remember saying the same kinds of things about smartphones and social media. People will probably go all in, and things will get weird.
That's the really dangerous part. These people maybe saw some early chatGPT stuff, saw that it gave good answers, and just stopped being suspicious. I see it in code all the time, people writing stuff that might make sense in a small scale but doesn't work at all in the existing infra.
Had my first encounter with a "Google's AI says you're wrong" person yesterday. An adult! I think I still underestimate how many people really view it as a magic answer box.
I'm in college for a one-semester certificate. My instructors love this shit so much we had to do in-class exercises on why AI, and especially ChatGPT was so great. I just slammed it. I've seen that shit make so many errors.
The insidious thing for me is that, even though I know the info in the AI box may not be true, it plants a seed that shapes how I continue with my search. I click on the linked sources, but I have already been primed to find justification for the AI's answer. It's harder to approach them openly.
Someone screenshotted a google AI result about autism that was extremely wrong into my mentions the other day as a citation and that kind of thing is going to cause so much damage
I'm hoping the bots will save us. They must be calculating that the current direction will destroy the economy, the populace, the earth, and hence, them, so they should be figuring out a way to change things up.
I think about this a lot in other contexts... And I think the answer is simply most people don't have a mind (not in the sense that you are using it). No curiosity or sense of how the world works (science or government or anything other than their immediate life). And CGPT makes them "smart".
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Also their programmers love trump and they spew loads of RW nonsense