GPT and other large language models are aesthetic instruments rather than epistemological ones. Imagine a weird, unholy synthesizer whose buttons sample textual information, style, and semantics. Such a thing is compelling not because it offers answers in the form of text, but because it makes it possible to play text—all the text, almost—like an instrument.

This is pretty much where my head is on this stuff right now.

The hype and the anti-hype noise is really unfortunate, because the emergent capabilities are fascinating.

But, you know, sometimes a human on LSD also does interesting things. I just wouldn't trust them with heavy machinery or accept medical advice.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-openai-artificial-intelligence-writing-ethics/672386/

I feel like this piratesoftware guy is inevitably going to milkshake duck, but dang it "WHY ME THEFTED?" made me snort so hard

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gRBAjAXFvD8

@jm3 oof, missed this in my notifications til just now. I haven’t seen this behavior before, alas. Not sure what’s up 🤔

LRT: whew lad, "donating" a private API token for your personal account to a third-party service with the intent to redistribute messages sent your way sure seems shady as all get out

@martyn Yeah, that's the unfortunate hype part, alas