AlexAffe · HackerTrans

2 months agodiscuss

Thought the same. And also, this whole piece might just be a nicely obfuscated ad for the service in question. Plus the "guardian sales angels" in the comment threads protecting their product: "why, I thought it read really smoothly?" "how sad of you to see only the bad things in life" "need to get outside more?" What has this all become. What have I become.

AlexAffe

3 years agodiscuss

Yeah, it's creepy, isn't it? I think we will have to have full identification in online forums at some point. I don't know though what could be done against GPT content. Universities don't either by the way. Super crazy.

AlexAffe

3 years agodiscuss

To you. That's your opinion. Maybe it's mine. But I will never go as far as to state something like my opinion as universially true. You do that. What makes you do that?

AlexAffe

3 years agodiscuss

Elon bashing is 99% some companies campaign. There is an amount of money involved beyond our wildest imagination. World economy kind of money. You don't read Elon and Tesla content on reddit frontpage with 30k ups on average almost 24/7 without there being companies involved spending heavily.

AlexAffe

3 years agodiscuss

Exactly my thoughts. It feels like campaign, also in light of many of the responses in here. Has some kind of "look what I made; wow, are you selling?" vibes I'm used to from /r/gifs. The really distressing part is: is this even written by humans? Also the comments in here. The first one to your post, saying some BS about pessismism, while being really condescending. Is it real? Or is it some ad company having their goons let GPT write a witty response that comnes across "likeable yet dismissive". We are no longer able to tell. I'm afraid to loose you all. Where are we going to connect and how can we be sure it's us?

AlexAffe

3 years agodiscuss

It's what I thought too. Would I be able to tell the difference? That thought really scares me. What if in not so distant future whole threads, comments included, are LLM generated? We are losing touch (ppl like you and me), and I feel it coming. That is not the first article on the web, that I quit reading in disgust, thinking 'FUCK, what if I'm reading GPT4 babble right now?' We will need a way to tell 100%.

AlexAffe

3 years agodiscuss

I agree! The problem is not with the fact that AI will make a lot of people unemployed, the problem is how we treat people who are unemployed. I love what I do, but I love the fact even more that I don't have to do it to live a good life (or worse: survive). I do it out of pure curiosity or maybe altruism. Maybe even social status, but not for the money.