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   Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 01:51:16 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

   Q for those finding interest in playing with #ChatGPT: Why is this interesting to you? What's the value you find in reading synthetic text? What do you think it's helping you to learn about the world and what are you assuming about the tech to support that idea?

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     JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 01:51:15 JST JP

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     @emilymbender as a creative worker i haven't used it, mostly on personal moral grounds (specifically i do not want to add value to openAI's data hoard of "things people ask the oracle) but also because it doesn't seem like nearly as powerful a creative tool as people imagine it to be. everything i've seen people post from their sessions is this milquetoast, satisfying-the-requirements-of-the-assignment-and-no-more slop. people are mostly just amazed that the dog is talking.

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     JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 02:11:25 JST JP

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     @emilymbender and as for factual questions, since you'd have to fact-check all of its output anyway (not that most users are rigorous about that!) how much time is it actually saving you from just doing the research? it almost feels like part of its appeal is to monetize the ongoing rot of web search engine results quality (itself caused by "AI" initiatives within google et al!) and if so those quality problems will continue to converge (as bad info feeds training data)

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