GPT can’t pick up the phone to find information. It can’t prioritise an obscure PDF from the government as an authoritative source. Instead, it just summarises

GPT can’t pick up the phone to find information. It can’t prioritise an obscure PDF from the government as an authoritative source. Instead, it just summarises the work of those who did. So eventually, some people have to do the hard work of putting new information online. Then GPT will allow other people to effortlessly monetise that work. Likewise, GPT can’t feel how it’s like to walk at 5AM in the Black Forest. It can only borrow from those who did, and explain it with another person’s writing style. But it does enable people who have never seen or heard of the Black Forest to write about it and monetise the result. What GPT can do is accelerate the sort of plagiarism that already plagues the internet.