[kwlug-disc] ChatGTP + Bing: we're entering a new paradigm and it's mind-blowing

[Chris Frey]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 01:48:16PM -0700, Ronald Barnes wrote:
> On one hand, we're supposed to fear it, on the other it's nothing but a
> bullshit generator.  They feel mutually exclusive.
> 
> It's so reductive and dismissive as to be the output of a poor bullshit
> generator.

In a later email:

> Also, people need to not believe everything they're told, especially
> when the "teller" explicitly advises them not to.

This is how I read the "bullshit generator" label.  It is a reminder
to the *reader* that you don't really know where the responses are
coming from, there is no actual brain behind the human-sounding
language, and so don't get carried away by the novelty of the tool.

It is sufficiently shocking as a label that it *might* have an effect
on how much people trust it.  I think we are generally way too gullible,
though.  We trust authority way too much, and that includes what appears
on a screen.

- Chris