Everybody Please Calm Down About ChatGPT

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The panic and hype around the surprisingly dumb chatbot is stopping us from talking about real issues with AI.

ChatGPT is more about bullshitting than creativity, which serves as a neat metaphor for what has happened with our technology sector and how it “feels like a giant organ for bullshittery―for upscaling human access to speech and for amplifying lies.” When Bogost sat down with ChatGPT, he found something similar to what moderators at Stack Overflow did.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmk9m/everybody-please-calm-down-about-chatgpt