#ChatGPT and other AI-based stuff like Midjourney, Copilot, etc, are going to create a denial of service attack against our collective ability to process information.
I believe this is already happening in academia and other fields where people can submit text co-written by ChatGPT and pretend it's their own. Teachers will have all sorts of problems with students claiming ChatGPT-generated texts are theirs.
But it goes further. Works created with these models will end up in courts, a lot.
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> Teachers will have all sorts of problems with students claiming ChatGPT-generated texts are theirs.
This might be not all bad. Too often teachers use "able to write an essay on X" as a proxy for "understands X well enough to use it". ChatGPT proves by contradiction how that doesn't follow, and will hopefully push teachers towards using better proxies (or, sadly, into using ChatGPT detectors).
@robryk @rysiek Maybe the AI text is convincing because we've been exposed to so much indifference toward meaning, knee-jerk use of cliche's, since WWI: That's what reading Orwell makes me think, in 1946:
> The writer... is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing.
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/