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I thought it was pretty annoying that the communications are put forth here as if the lander is an animate thing engaging in conversation with us. Perhaps one
by CWuestefeld 4y ago
I thought it was pretty annoying that the communications are put forth here as if the lander is an animate thing engaging in conversation with us.
Perhaps one day we'll achieve something like that. Heck, maybe we'll send up the grandchild of ChatGPT to be the voice of a future exploration probe. But that's not what we have today. These messages were coded by the engineers who built the thing, and any implication of sentiment is bogus.
- Clamchop 4y agoBecause the messages were written by people, the sentiment is more authentic than anything made by gpt.
- CWuestefeld 4y agoThe messages were written by the very people that they are ostensibly sent to. It's sock-puppeting.
- Clamchop 4y agoWhy does this make the sentiment insincere? Is it inauthentic if you're saying it to yourself? And whoever wrote this didn't write it just for themselves (there are other involved people and there is public relations). More charitably than sock puppeting, it is storytelling through personification.
- CWuestefeld 4y agoIf NASA themselves want to use storytelling for PR purposes, fine. I don't think that has a proper home in scientific journalism. Isn't that what we* have been criticizing journalists about - letting the objective story get co-opted to achieve someone's agenda? *I don't know if that "we" specifically includes you. But certainly big chunk of society, especially in technical spheres, is within the "we".