Oddbean new post about login | logout Just seen a new favourite response to AI text. "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"
@2184a19c ChatAI etc is how tech, & its investors on Wall Street & OPEC+, plan to craft plausible deniability for the onslaught of malign influence campaigns underway for 2024 They'll hype ChatAI until some OPEC billionaire buys its IPO on Wall Street, sells its services to Putin & Xi. Then they can claim that they aren't responsible for moderating harmful disinformation on the 3 C's, covid, climate, & coups Founder cashes in & founds another Bluesky to erode democracy, rinse & repeat
@2184a19c I think we are all going to need an electronic Monk Plus for this... #douglasadams #ElectricMonk https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/111/161/687/100/139/786/original/7c92f61e97225d8f.png
I am not a fan of these plagiarisation machines, and their output looks wonky at best to me, but I do not agree with this line of reasoning. Do they extend this reasoning to the use and consumption of some other products that were made by a machine?
@2184a19c While I agree with the intent behind this, that phrase "nobody could be bothered to write" assumes that people use a technology because they're lazy and consider the task beneath them. Disabled folk who use assistive technology to communicate, for example, would strongly disagree. The problem, of course, is that enabling these genuinely life-changing use cases is of no interest to those peddling generated text right now. More money to be made from advertising "content".
