I asked ChatGPT to fuck everything up, for clout
Hi everyone. I know that everybody is kind of freaking out at the moment about the recent advances made by AI, especially the possibility of bots taking over from humans after robbing us of our work, while violating our planet's ecosystem. So I thought I would write up a thought experiment I ran a couple of days ago in which I asked ChatGPT some questions in order to get some retweets. When I started out on the test I was, like you, ambivalent about the effects of AI - of course, I use ChatGPT to write my weekly shopping list and birthday greetings to my parents, and to do my work as a journalist for the New York Times, but I was also quite concerned about a badly spelled article I half-read somewhere which said that the movement to automate every aspect of our lives might have a couple of adverse effects. However, even having those somewhat mixed feelings about surrendering my entire existence to the machine equivalent of an echo in a cave couldn't prepare me for what happene...