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My main concern isn't whether ChatGPT will kill off anything, like journalism. Instead, my concern is that this will create a Internet-wide echo chamber. I've
by hosh 4y ago
My main concern isn't whether ChatGPT will kill off anything, like journalism. Instead, my concern is that this will create a Internet-wide echo chamber.
I've seen what happens when an individual human enter a delusional feedback loop and diverge from reality, that pivotal moment when sensemaking becomes self-referential. They get a psychotic break. I think we're going to get front-row seats at watching a whole, planet-spanning civilization enter a psychotic break.
Arguably, we are already there. It's just that, I think deploying ChatGPT will greatly accelerate this. This won't just be fringe or extreme subcultures, but rather, the mainstream cultures, as our sensemaking turns inwards.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoI think the internet today has two modes, at least. One is commoditized content and the other is collaborative content. The commoditized content has long since been either automated or at least highly ripped off, and with chatgpt style AI it’ll probably improve dramatically to the point of being generally valuable and useful, even if it seems to offend people that a machine did something they did before (is this the White collar John Henry moment?). The collaborative stuff will continue to be there as it is because we genuinely like talking to other hairless monkeys. They will probably take “no AI” rules of discourse, along with their currently rules of stuff like “no soliciting or selling,” “no flaming,” “no jerks,” etc. I for one welcome our new chatgpt overlords.