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This is an interesting article that suggests that ChatGPT gives us a new way to look at human bullshittery. > Many people in many fields, including quite a few
by raffraffraff 3y ago
This is an interesting article that suggests that ChatGPT gives us a new way to look at human bullshittery.
> Many people in many fields, including quite a few in academia, also act rather like a ChatGPT, particularly in academic disciplines that don’t do much empirical work, work with facts or testable hypotheses
> I now realise that me not understanding what someone is saying is sometimes a sign that they don’t know what they’re talking about, and that they are essentially acting like an LLM. This would become apparent if they were ever interviewed in the way that politicians are sometimes interviewed in the media, with forensic questioning: ‘what do you actually mean by x?
I won't continue to spoil a short, interesting piece by continuing to steal quotes from it!