ChatGPT, more like ChatLOL, LMAO even
There's been so much fuss around ChatGPT online. People seem to be either celebrating it or vilifying it, and it's even gotten the big snouts at the top shivering in their boots. Want to know why?
Because ChatGPT is what Google was supposed to be. MrBot over there is the perfect assistant to any curious mind, with one less dimension to it - there is no SEO stupidity involved.
SEO is just a fancy acronym for a simplistic concept of shouting certain words long enough and hard enough until you get noticed, and any SEO "specialist" can fight me on this. ChatGPT can provide official forms, make haiku poetry, or answer questions, all without bombarding the user with twelve pages of TOP 10 REASONS WHY YOU NEED THIS LIGHT PROJECTOR THAT WILL OVERHEAT WITHIN 7 MINUTES OF USAGE. Hell, it can even make those clickbait TOP 10 SEO articles within seconds, because those are just empty, soulless content that people vomit out for 0.01$ per word.
Some people think it will replace literature, as it technically can produce some vague descriptions of places and actions. Those people have not read any of that content, because let me tell you, it is dogshit. The whole thing falls apart within three paragraphs and gradually loses any rhythm or rhyme until the story becomes so convoluted and empty at the same time, most readers would drop it.
"But authoooor, it may be dogshit noooow, because it's still develooopinnnggg"
Bullshit.
The one thing Machine Learning (and I'm even hesitant to call it that, let alone "AI", because it's neither) cannot possibly convey is that unique feeling of observing and consuming art, in any form, and analysing what the artist tried to tell us. It is the most fundamental part of understanding art, and it cannot possibly be replicated by any ML or AI witchcraft simply because there is no actual artist on the other side. AI art is pretty to look at (from afar, do NOT zoom in), but that's about it.
It has no message, no sustenance to it, it is just digital glitter.
What I do not understand is the relentless pursuit of techbros in automating any and all things that make us human. Why not work towards using technology for things that we could not possibly do, like removing nuclear waste or simulating life expectancy in harsh conditions? It’s like they are all hellbent on showing those pesky artists how it’s done in the Real World™ without realising they are trying to remove the very human need to create from the equation. I’m sorry your parents did not let you go to art school, bro, but there are better ways of coping with that.
Anyone who is afraid their creative work, be it current or future, will be taken over by a bundle of if statements should perhaps stop writing garbage, or throwing paint onto canvas. Programmers, on the other hand, should probably learn how to code, for realsies this time.
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