I have observed the untempered CONTEMPT of some students for the others they observe using chatGPT in class. They come and tell on their peers after class, SEETHING, or they turn in assignments that say things like (actual quote from in-class writing assignment): "Or, for good example, be like, to give a random name, [ name of actual student he sits next to ] and use chatGPT to give you the answer since you desire entertainment so much that your brain has shut down." (I already knew there was a problem with Student-Redacted because he was unable to answer simple classroom conversation questions orally. But this seething hot anger and contempt for their cheater-peers is the thing that gives me hope for the future: because other than the people using these tools, everyone else finds them insulting to their humanity, even if they're not even the ones who have to read the slop (and especially if they are).
It does seem like anger has become the appropriate (normal) reaction: to feel insulted, dehumanized, to feel that what the bot-text-monger is doing is degrading, perhaps to civilization or humanity itself, but DEFINITELY to the human being whose eyeballs were tricked into reading slop.
This really gives me hope that we can at least limit AI. At the very least, teach people, especially kids, that it's at best a starting point, not an end point, for what you want to know or do.
First of all: we are doomed! But then silver lining is in understanding what is happening so I have to recommend the excellent "The Eye of the Master" by Matteo Pasquinelli on the topic of AI, its history specifically under the aspect of division of labor. Must read. And lastly I will take Michel's advice and grab an old book from the shelf: "Der Bauernkrieg" by Friedrich Engels (in English: "The Peasant War in Germany"), originally published in 1850 my edition is from 1946 in pristine condition. Let's go in the park, wander around, reading, like the good folks in "Fahrenheit 451". VIVA LA REVOLUTION !!!!!
hello from sydney, lincoln, and all i can kinda say is "damn it really does get worse, doesn't it" - as much as i hate to say it, i am in the camp that AI is revolutionary piece of technology that has the potential to rid a ton of problems we humans face today but find it so horrendous as to how the first 'problem' it seems to target is everything creative, cultural, community-building... everything that makes us human instead of machines! i fear the long-term impacts of younger generations offloading thinking and problem-solving to mr GPT himself and while a handful of movies explore a timeline where AI gains sentience and threatens to kill humanity, the real problem is if humanity puts its ability to think at risk with advent of AI - and AI doesn't even need to gain sentience to do that.
This is WOW. It is also a reality we never wanted to see happen. It’s worse than all the movies which predicted the future. Even the Sci-Fi authors like Orwell who thought he was calling it to the extreme weren’t even close. Huxley got it right with Soma he just never thought the dope would literally be in everything we see everyday.
This is an uncomfortable period for us, for certain. It is also a transition and learning opportunity, for change. Admittedly at the moment, it is difficult to see this change for the better. However it is also my belief we have enough people who will be existing at the same time all this is happening who understand the value of what is real and true. Yes, we the ones who reach for books. We will also have to be the ones to protect them.
Expecting some larger entity to step in and save us is futile. We have to do it ourselves. Call it out, as you do here. Create decentralized groups with independent infrastructures to manage and distribute real information. Set rules and standards of our own and stick to them.
Let’s not just be observers of a sinking ship. Let us be the lifeboats to save the rest from drowning in our behaviors, choices, VOICE.
Like many authors, I'd love to land on somebody's "Summer Reading List." Unlike many, I don't have much cred...but I certainly have more than some fake bullshit sucks-dead-rhinoceros dick AI-created nonsense.
If this doesn't teach the world that AI is nothing but a scammy bowl of fuck, I don't know what will.
Well, this could explain why they reported Russia collusion was real; the “pee tapes” were real, the ‘secret server’ in Trump Tower was real, Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake, and that Biden was ‘sharp as a tack’ 💁🏼♂️
Is it really any wonder the public despises the dying mainstream media? We simply don’t hate them enough.
Well, this could explain why they reported Russia collusion was real; the “pee tapes were real, the ‘secret server’ in Trump Tower was real, Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake, and that Biden was ‘sharp as a tack’ 💁🏼♂️
Is it really any wonder the public despises the dying mainstream media? We simply don’t hate them enough.
Well, this could explain why they reported Russia collusion was real; the “pee tapes were real, the ‘secret server’ in Trump Tower was real, Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake, and that Biden was ‘sharp as a tack’ 💁🏼♂️
Is it really any wonder the public despises the dying mainstream media? We simply don’t hate them enough.
Speaking also as a professor to undergrads:
I have observed the untempered CONTEMPT of some students for the others they observe using chatGPT in class. They come and tell on their peers after class, SEETHING, or they turn in assignments that say things like (actual quote from in-class writing assignment): "Or, for good example, be like, to give a random name, [ name of actual student he sits next to ] and use chatGPT to give you the answer since you desire entertainment so much that your brain has shut down." (I already knew there was a problem with Student-Redacted because he was unable to answer simple classroom conversation questions orally. But this seething hot anger and contempt for their cheater-peers is the thing that gives me hope for the future: because other than the people using these tools, everyone else finds them insulting to their humanity, even if they're not even the ones who have to read the slop (and especially if they are).
It does seem like anger has become the appropriate (normal) reaction: to feel insulted, dehumanized, to feel that what the bot-text-monger is doing is degrading, perhaps to civilization or humanity itself, but DEFINITELY to the human being whose eyeballs were tricked into reading slop.
This really gives me hope that we can at least limit AI. At the very least, teach people, especially kids, that it's at best a starting point, not an end point, for what you want to know or do.
First of all: we are doomed! But then silver lining is in understanding what is happening so I have to recommend the excellent "The Eye of the Master" by Matteo Pasquinelli on the topic of AI, its history specifically under the aspect of division of labor. Must read. And lastly I will take Michel's advice and grab an old book from the shelf: "Der Bauernkrieg" by Friedrich Engels (in English: "The Peasant War in Germany"), originally published in 1850 my edition is from 1946 in pristine condition. Let's go in the park, wander around, reading, like the good folks in "Fahrenheit 451". VIVA LA REVOLUTION !!!!!
“Over the weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times—a storied and award-winning newspaper and longtime home of Roger Ebert…”
Ebert, sadly, is dead. As is real writing at the Chicago Sun-Times.
“The thing about the old days, they the old days.”
- Slim Charles, The Wire
Say it ain't so - I was looking forward to a couple of these, especially "The Last Algorithm" and "Boiling Point."
Darn!
This makes me want to puke.
hello from sydney, lincoln, and all i can kinda say is "damn it really does get worse, doesn't it" - as much as i hate to say it, i am in the camp that AI is revolutionary piece of technology that has the potential to rid a ton of problems we humans face today but find it so horrendous as to how the first 'problem' it seems to target is everything creative, cultural, community-building... everything that makes us human instead of machines! i fear the long-term impacts of younger generations offloading thinking and problem-solving to mr GPT himself and while a handful of movies explore a timeline where AI gains sentience and threatens to kill humanity, the real problem is if humanity puts its ability to think at risk with advent of AI - and AI doesn't even need to gain sentience to do that.
(thanks for sharing!!!)
This is a great article. You echo a lot of my own feelings.
Why hasn't the containment break alarm gone off? 😬
This is WOW. It is also a reality we never wanted to see happen. It’s worse than all the movies which predicted the future. Even the Sci-Fi authors like Orwell who thought he was calling it to the extreme weren’t even close. Huxley got it right with Soma he just never thought the dope would literally be in everything we see everyday.
This is an uncomfortable period for us, for certain. It is also a transition and learning opportunity, for change. Admittedly at the moment, it is difficult to see this change for the better. However it is also my belief we have enough people who will be existing at the same time all this is happening who understand the value of what is real and true. Yes, we the ones who reach for books. We will also have to be the ones to protect them.
Expecting some larger entity to step in and save us is futile. We have to do it ourselves. Call it out, as you do here. Create decentralized groups with independent infrastructures to manage and distribute real information. Set rules and standards of our own and stick to them.
Let’s not just be observers of a sinking ship. Let us be the lifeboats to save the rest from drowning in our behaviors, choices, VOICE.
For its part, the Chicago Sun-Times is “looking into how this made it into print.” --They can start with the editor who put this through.
professors saying they used AI to deal with “overwhelming workloads.” --Using AI to interact with students is fraud.
Thanks Lincoln an excellent 'stack. And luck with that book!
Like many authors, I'd love to land on somebody's "Summer Reading List." Unlike many, I don't have much cred...but I certainly have more than some fake bullshit sucks-dead-rhinoceros dick AI-created nonsense.
If this doesn't teach the world that AI is nothing but a scammy bowl of fuck, I don't know what will.
"What was the death rattle of newspapers?"
Well, this could explain why they reported Russia collusion was real; the “pee tapes” were real, the ‘secret server’ in Trump Tower was real, Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake, and that Biden was ‘sharp as a tack’ 💁🏼♂️
Is it really any wonder the public despises the dying mainstream media? We simply don’t hate them enough.
Well, this could explain why they reported Russia collusion was real; the “pee tapes were real, the ‘secret server’ in Trump Tower was real, Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake, and that Biden was ‘sharp as a tack’ 💁🏼♂️
Is it really any wonder the public despises the dying mainstream media? We simply don’t hate them enough.
Well, this could explain why they reported Russia collusion was real; the “pee tapes were real, the ‘secret server’ in Trump Tower was real, Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake, and that Biden was ‘sharp as a tack’ 💁🏼♂️
Is it really any wonder the public despises the dying mainstream media? We simply don’t hate them enough.
Sigh