If AI Can Replace You, You Must Be a Shitty Writer
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Open AI’s latest language model, Chat GPT, gained over a million users in its first five days after launch. No one, including the program itself, can shut up about it.
We’ve had chatbots seemingly forever now, stacked like racks of angels tethered to a customer service decision tree that leads penitents ever onward into ever-deeper circles of perdition.
But this new one is better. Faster. Smarter. Breathless online articles tout the program as being indistinguishable from talking to a human.
It can answer your questions about anything. It can write code and churn out (terrible) song lyrics, and if it can’t tell you where you left your keys, it will find out soon enough. It can write. It can write, the tech boosters crow with misanthropic glee, better than you.
A harbinger of the coming technological revolution. A computer that can think and reason like a human, that can perform tasks that were once the sole preserve of humans. It’s not just the chat bot. There’s the visual art too, Midjourney and Night Café and Dall-E 2, able to create images from a few words in a prompt.
