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‘The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel’
Unsurprisingly, @jjn1@twitter.com has a rather useful view on #ChatGPT. After all, can most of us imagine doing general maths without a calculator this days? #AI https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/07/chatgpt-bot-excel-ai-chatbot-tech?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Tell me if this sounds implausible or even unlikely.
To get clicks on ads, AI is used to generate swathes of authentic-looking, authoritative sounding, _fake and made up information_.
This AI-BS swiftly outpaces actual useful information. Only human videos can be used to gain new info.
Humans are paid to film scripts generated by AI to meet the new criteria.
The Internet becomes useless for learning.
@Homebrewandhacking Most of that sounds thoroughly plausible, in that it’s entirely possible that large percentages of text-based ‘copy’ on the Web will increasingly be AI-generated.
Less sure about the other parts. Already there are AI human avatars ‘performing’ AI-generated film scripts, for starters.
The Internet becoming useless for learning is a moot point. We’ll need to learn to critically evaluate published resources on the open web, for starters…
@Homebrewandhacking …Just because a lot of published information on the web on future will be AI-generated, that doesn’t automatically follow that it will all be factually incorrect. We can learn from it too. And the Internet as a delivery mechanism for human-facilitated online education is only growing. There’ll still be people behind that.
@dompates No, it's not a moot point, it's the whole point. The web is a valuable tool for learning and making it impossible to find good information would suck.
Clearly you don't remember the pre-google days of searching. Like that but everything seems relevant and plausible.
I think your implied Web of paywalled only content sounds pretty sucky to be honest.
@Homebrewandhacking Not disagreeing with you or being particularly pro-AI, or anything like that. I remember pre-Google searching pretty well too, having to get a bus into town when the library was open to be able to find information that wasn’t available in books in my house 
No suggestion of paywalled-only content either, which I agree would suck. I work in education, and a lot of learning is happening online rather than just in the classroom. Guess that’s a paywall of sorts…
@Homebrewandhacking …but not something that was ever that open in the first place.
We already have large amounts of misinformation on the Web, before we take AI into account. That’s because we removed the gatekeepers to publishing information, which is both a good and a bad thing.
One thing about the Net is that it always evolves. As the key driver of modern life, that unfortunately means we have to evolve with it. In some cases, that’ll mean working ‘with’ AI. In others, against.
@Homebrewandhacking Apologies if the ‘moot point’ comment sounded like a criticism - not intended as one!