Reminds me of a great post by @pluralistic including the example of professors outsourcing letter-of-reference writing to ChatGPT.
“The next step is obvious: as letters of reference proliferate, people who receive these letters will ask a chatbot to summarize them in a few bullet points, … 1/2
@cgruenloh @danmcquillan @guihn288@mastodon.social @pluralistic
This process captured earlier by
Tom Fishburne at the Marketoonist:
@DenOfEarth @cgruenloh @danmcquillan @guihn288 @pluralistic what's the opposite of data compression? Spreading?
@DenOfEarth @cgruenloh @danmcquillan @guihn288 @pluralistic Did they perhaps just take the whole morality argument out of this @danmcquillan and turn it into techbro willy waving?
@DenOfEarth @cgruenloh @danmcquillan @guihn288 @pluralistic
We haven't quite gotten to the point where it is "Have your AI contact my AI." Or have we? Soon the internet will just be AIs chatting with each other using up fabulous amounts of electricity.
@DenOfEarth @cgruenloh @danmcquillan @guihn288 @pluralistic We clearly need a new header.X-TLDR or X-AI-Prompt?
Or why not both, since the first one seems useful on its own: for instance it could replace prefix snippets.
@DenOfEarth @cgruenloh @danmcquillan @guihn288 @pluralistic
I like calling it "lossy data inflation".
@DenOfEarth @cgruenloh @danmcquillan @guihn288 @pluralistic Somewhere Stuart Hall is laughing and shouting "See! I told you!"
@DenOfEarth @cgruenloh @danmcquillan @pluralistic Absolute neurotypical behaviour.