My last post, a sketch specifically about the weariness of tech debunking, got a few more eyes than intended, and folks wanting to engage on "Why is ChatGPT bad?". This is my why.
I think people are underestimating the sheer volume of quasi-meaningful nonsense that this machine is going to put into the world. You have pointed it out in your article the issues already being seen by Clarkesworld and similar but it's really the tip of the iceberg. Chasing down these magazine submissions for the pittance of pay is the first and most obvious incentive, but the list of grifts is just going to keep growing. I can easily forsee a future that renders the internet all but useless as chatbots are constantly querying and answering their own bilge and flooding SEO optimised sites.
Your point about the use of machines to drive down labour is the thing that really, really worries me though. Companies have almost no incentive to continue to pay more money for a human, and labour is already strained from market deregulation and fallout from the pandemic.
It's very worrying, and I'm currently writing a series that's arguing my own concerns which are almost directly aligned with yours.
I think people are underestimating the sheer volume of quasi-meaningful nonsense that this machine is going to put into the world. You have pointed it out in your article the issues already being seen by Clarkesworld and similar but it's really the tip of the iceberg. Chasing down these magazine submissions for the pittance of pay is the first and most obvious incentive, but the list of grifts is just going to keep growing. I can easily forsee a future that renders the internet all but useless as chatbots are constantly querying and answering their own bilge and flooding SEO optimised sites.
Your point about the use of machines to drive down labour is the thing that really, really worries me though. Companies have almost no incentive to continue to pay more money for a human, and labour is already strained from market deregulation and fallout from the pandemic.
It's very worrying, and I'm currently writing a series that's arguing my own concerns which are almost directly aligned with yours.