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> Maybe people will just stop caring about the human touch. No they won’t. This has happened many times in the past already with live theatre -> movies, live m

by klabb3 1y ago

> Maybe people will just stop caring about the human touch. No they won’t. This has happened many times in the past already with live theatre -> movies, live music -> radio etc. They don’t replace, but break into different categories where the new thing is cheap and abundant. When a corporation writes you a shit letter with ”We miss you, Derek” all reasonable people know what they’re looking at. Look, it’s about basic economics. It doesn’t matter how ”good” the generated song for someone’s birthday is. What matters is the time, money and effort. In some cases writing a prompt for one-time use is not bad. If you’re generating individual output at scale without any human attention, nobody will appreciate the ”gesture”. What bothers me is the content farm for X shit-startups and tech-cos thinking they’re replacing humans without side effects. It’ll work just as well as those fake signatures by the CEO in junk mail: it’ll deceive only for a short time, and maybe older people who may be permanently screwed. It’ll just be yet another comms channel saturated with spam, which is entirely fungible from the heaps of all other spam. A classic race to the bottom.

fragmede 1y ago
Let us "delve" into this topic. The problem is it's all just words, and school children have figured out they can just ask ChatGPT to use the diction expected of a 13 year old child, and have it rewrite their essay without any of the old tells, like the word "delve", leaving us all none the wiser. Meanwhile, the difference between community theater and a movie, or live music vs recorded is obvious to even the most casual observer. Thus, this time it's different because other than a few particular word choices, and a bit of structure, we're left guessing just how much ChatGPT was used. Was it zero? Was it used as a more advanced Google Search? did it write the whole thing? Was there any editing of ChatGPT's output? What do you do when we can no longer tell the difference?
- klabb3 1y ago
  This has also happened before. For instance, when audio recording equipment became better concerts you can’t obviously tell if lip sync was used, even if amplifiers existed before. Similar with autotune. The signs are hard to spot, and with single interaction you just don’t really assume anything (like a superposition). With repeat interactions, you can start to paint a picture. You are entirely right though that people will slip under the radar for a while. But it’ll only be a matter of time until a personal cold email means absolutely nothing again, simply because the volume of them will be insane.

by klabb3 1y ago

fragmede 1y ago

Let us "delve" into this topic. The problem is it's all just words, and school children have figured out they can just ask ChatGPT to use the diction expected of a 13 year old child, and have it rewrite their essay without any of the old tells, like the word "delve", leaving us all none the wiser. Meanwhile, the difference between community theater and a movie, or live music vs recorded is obvious to even the most casual observer. Thus, this time it's different because other than a few particular word choices, and a bit of structure, we're left guessing just how much ChatGPT was used. Was it zero? Was it used as a more advanced Google Search? did it write the whole thing? Was there any editing of ChatGPT's output? What do you do when we can no longer tell the difference?

klabb3 1y ago
This has also happened before. For instance, when audio recording equipment became better concerts you can’t obviously tell if lip sync was used, even if amplifiers existed before. Similar with autotune. The signs are hard to spot, and with single interaction you just don’t really assume anything (like a superposition). With repeat interactions, you can start to paint a picture. You are entirely right though that people will slip under the radar for a while. But it’ll only be a matter of time until a personal cold email means absolutely nothing again, simply because the volume of them will be insane.