Sadly web search, and the web in general, have enshittified so much that asking ChatGPT can be a much more reliable and quicker way to find information. I don’t excuse it for anything that you could easily find on wikipedia, but it’s useful for queries such as “what’s the name of that free indie game from the 00s that was just a boss rush no you fucking idiot not any of this shit it was a game maker thing with retro pixel style or whatever ugh” where web search is utterly useless. It’s a frustrating situation, because of course in an ideal world chatbots don’t exist and information on the web is not drowned in a sea of predatory bullshit, reliable web indexes and directories exist and you can easily ask other people on non-predatory platforms. In the meanwhile I don’t want to blame the average (non-tech-evangelist, non-responsibility-having) user for being funnelled into this crap. At worst they’re victims like all of us.

Oh yeah and the game’s Banana Nababa by the way.

I was tempted to gawk but then I realised… the guy’s just going to see some shapes in the light and it’s going to be boring as shit

So like, do we think they outright lie about peer review, or are they asking people with no ressources and better things to do whose reviews consist of plopping the paper into chatgpt?

TIL I take the same medicine as Glinner

hey siri can you write me a nothing paper that combines two popular topics that are easy to bullshit about

The article’s abstract made me die a hundred times

Yeah!!!

Not to be too much of a fujoshi in public but Shakespeare is writing about a boy not a girl!!!

It’s like a thong for your iPhone

depressing!

I read that as saliva and I thought you were both absolutely correct.

Ohh, good advice. If you’re infected with covid, I also recommend you make sure to take adequate breaths.

So… They’re going to use the bot trained on wikipedia to rewrite wikipedia. Very much a Pierre Menard type situation.

I have problems and wish to know what this story is and where it can be found.

brb going to try douglas hofstadter for crimes against humanity

That OpenAI haven’t recalled their product after it’s been involved in several violent deaths, that it would even be absurd to suggest they should recall it, really highlights how corrupt and disgusting the industry and the whole structure propping it up are.

That is certainly a way you can use to describe a course of action that you would consider morally good. I don’t know if you should, but I suppose it is not a physical impossibility.

tfw your gifted child syndrome resentment of adults is powerful enough to make you forget about your life’s work

Yes dude, that’s the main thing you should be concerned about of course. AI tools couldn’t possibly be bad in and of themselves, it has to be human tampering. You’ve always been very clear about that part.

The old chestnut that really these days it’s women who hold all the power is as old as times. I saw an instance in Perrault’s introduction to the tale of Griselidis (1691) and I’m sure you can go much further back. Not sure why we ever even bothered with voting rights, reproductive freedom, or personhood.