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Jay L Gischer's avatar

ChatGPT demonstrates what language skills that are divorced from any knowledge of the world looks like. It reminds me of precocious young people who can say things they have heard that seem appropriate, but don't really understand what they are saying.

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"'I’m a confidence man.” And that’s actually how the term originated—as 'confidence man.'"

I've heard this for years, but never the second half "I give them confidence". I always assumed it meant the person doing conning, but this makes so much more sense... and explains why it rarely works on me. lol

Also: I've recently seen some screenshots of ChatGPT being asked to write a poem about a particular politician and it refused on the grounds that "orange man bad" ... but didn't waste a second writing one praising the current White House resident, who is arguably even more problematic. I'm not fan of orange man, the fact that AI has been trained to react this way should be of major concern to everyone.

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