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There's actually a really interesting field of (serious) academic and scientific endeavour into the study of "pseudo profound bullshit" - a search for that will
by g_p 6y ago
There's actually a really interesting field of (serious) academic and scientific endeavour into the study of "pseudo profound bullshit" - a search for that will find you some of the papers available freely online.
It seems that these text generation bots are pretty good, as you say, at generating some basic level chatter about a topic in a manner that can sound convincing. Somewhat like a "talk-show style TV news pundit" can - I'm reminded of the various times they're tricked into giving their commentary on things that haven't happened yet, and they happily (blindly) oblige, because they're more interested in being seen to be an expert than in actually having something to say.
I think the more confident and critical you are in reading, the raider it is to detect the nonsense through internal inconsistencies - many of these text generation systems really struggle to produce an internally consistent argument.