ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving

What is upsetting about so much of the commentary and hype around ChatGPT is that it ignores the fact of writing and reading as  experiences . To some, as long as ChatGPT generates content that is plausible, passing a (very) surface-level muster, we should be impressed and allow it to substitute for the human-produced text.

What ChatGPT can do is a marvel. We are at the dawn of a new technological era. But it is easy to see how it could turn dark — and quickly. A.I. systems like this make the production and manipulation of text (and code and images and eventually audio and video) functionally costless. They will be deployed to produce whatever makes us most

First and foremost, ChatGPT lacks the ability to truly understand the complexity of human language and conversation. It is simply trained to generate words based on a given input, but it does not have the ability to truly comprehend the meaning behind those words. This means that any responses it generates are likely to be shallow and lacking in de