"We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it." Excellent piece by @danmcquillan@twitter.com:
https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html
I suggest you read the whole thing, but some pull quotes:
"ChatGPT is a part of a reality distortion field that obscures the underlying extractivism and diverts us into asking the wrong questions and worrying about the wrong things."
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Pull quotes continued:
"The compulsion to show 'balance' by always referring to AI's alleged potential for good should be dropped by acknowledging that the social benefits are still speculative while the harms have been empirically demonstrated."
"Instead of reactionary solutionism, let us ask where the technologies are that people really need. Let us reclaim the idea of socially useful production, of technological developments that start from community needs."
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And finally:
"Transformer models and diffusion models are not creative but carceral - they and other forms of AI imprison our ability to imagine real alternatives."
@emilymbender @danmcquillan honest question : what’s the difference between these quotes and what people were saying about the camera ? About the internet ? About anything really
