[Info-vax] ChatGPT solved it for me, again...

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2023-02-14 22:44:20 +0000, Slo said:

> ...so I asked ChatGPT for help...

ChatGPT is overhyped hot garbage, too often filled with utter bullshit 
presented with the patina of authority and certainty.

It's the automation of the generation of bullshit, too; of broadsheets 
and newsrags, of content farms, and worse. Sans citations.

One of the implementations of this utter unmitigated bullshit was 
recently presenting the human population of Mars as ten billion, when 
queried. It was seemingly picking up its answer to the question from a 
fictional TV series.

Like all effective bullshit, much of what ChatGPT will return will even 
be true and verifiable. Just... not all.

This ChatGPT stuff will be invaluable to ad-supported content 
providers, and that for as long as it garners them clicks. And it'll 
make the purveyors rich, some of whom are also now starting to offer 
worse-than-nothing detection services.

For what will happen here, see Brandolini's law. Expect some 
implementations to use corpora tuned for outrage, too.

But then I'm in a charitable mood today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
etc.


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