"60 Minutes" has a story on ChatGPT tonight that's worth watching

[hunter]

19. 60 Minutes itself tends to be "Authoritative Bullshit"

"Authoritative Bullshit" is why I quit all television news and opinion two decades ago. Television is a terrible medium for news and opinion.

Here's an article of greater depth than the 60 minutes report, an interview with one of the leading academic critics of these technologies, linguist Emily M. Bender

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

We all need to know how to recognize "Authoritative Bullshit" however it's generated, be it within electronic circuits or human brains.

Critical thinking skills are important.

I've said it before in your threads that I don't think these technologies will increase the volumes of bullshit we are exposed to. That market is already saturated with human generated bullshit.

Educators ask for bullshit papers and students generate bullshit papers.

Employers ask for bullshit reports and employees generate bullshit report.

News producers demand bullshit news and reporters generate bullshit news.

These technologies don't change a damned thing.

There are entire industries that specialize in generating bullshit and it seems to me that some of the people working in these industries are complaining because their jobs are about to be automated.

I can easily imagine some illiterate innumerate racist scumbag politician or Fox News "reporter" spewing some hateful gibberish into such a machine for "polishing." But that's not any different what they do already, except the turd polishers are human.