Subject: ChatGPT does have some issues, but I'm hopeful about this technology.
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Posted on: 2023-03-26 17:43:07 UTC

The thing about the AI is that it's very confident when it's lying or wrong, so you should be careful to fact-check everything it says. Once, when I was talking with the AI, it came up with an entirely new character for The Magnus Archives (someone named Jack who was connected to all the Powers/Entities… like, Gary Stu much?) and claimed that the character was canonical, so yeah.

On the other side of the coin, I've heard about all the good things this AI can do! I listen to a podcast called Hard Fork, which talks about recent technological developments (you may have heard of one of the co-hosts, Kevin Roose, and his… disorienting experience with the Bing chatbot). Their latest episode is about how people use ChatGPT in their lives, and it includes coming up with song titles, using it to negotiate with a landlord, and finding recipes and generating shopping lists. My favorite was probably a trans woman using it for affirmation and support! :D

So while the chatbot has a lot of "bugs" that need to be smoothed out, I think the future of generative AI is a bright one.

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