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It is not a fluke that ChatGPT becomes popular in a time when alternative facts wins elections. A time when prominent business people look down at education and

It is not a fluke that ChatGPT becomes popular in a time when alternative facts wins elections. A time when prominent business people look down at education and talks about smart people being dangerous. A time when you have to sit down with your dad for an hour to explain that the post he read on Facebook is not really a news article. I am not sure it is up to OpenAI to solve all these problems. I don't think OpenAI are doing worse than anybody else. What I personally dislike about ChatGPT right now is that it seems to have more and more difficulty to actually stay on the context of the chat. It has become a QnA. Secondly. Hidden ads. It even advocates for Azure bs that has even been removed from Azure. Even on data ChatGPT was trained on. Is that just by chance?

pixl97 3y ago
>It is not a fluke that ChatGPT becomes popular in a time when alternative facts wins elections. A time when prominent business people look down at education and talks about smart people being dangerous. A time when you have to sit down with your dad for an hour to explain that the post he read on Facebook is not really a news article. I think you may be reversing cause and effect by your tone. The following statement is not new at all. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov At least in the past mass information was protected by gatekeepers. That printing presses and paper was expensive was a gate. That radio towers were expensive and channels few was a gate. That television towers were even more expensive and broadcasting was an expensive endeavor was an even larger gate. These gatekeepers where generally significantly invested in the continued distribution of their message and had some limits of restraint. In those same times there were conmen with no restraint whatsoever, but it was much less likely they would have a medium in which to spread widely so it limited their audience. With cable TV and internet we have developed an unlimited medium to a 24/7 hour audience anywhere in seconds. Truly monumental amounts of garbage and trash can be generated and fed to a hungry audience. They get their own little sheltered realities of junk food information in which they never have to leave.
- AtNightWeCode 3y ago
  You are right and I am not sure where my mind is right now. Isaac Asimov is on my bucket list to read. At least the trilogy.

pixl97 3y ago

>It is not a fluke that ChatGPT becomes popular in a time when alternative facts wins elections. A time when prominent business people look down at education and talks about smart people being dangerous. A time when you have to sit down with your dad for an hour to explain that the post he read on Facebook is not really a news article. I think you may be reversing cause and effect by your tone. The following statement is not new at all. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov At least in the past mass information was protected by gatekeepers. That printing presses and paper was expensive was a gate. That radio towers were expensive and channels few was a gate. That television towers were even more expensive and broadcasting was an expensive endeavor was an even larger gate. These gatekeepers where generally significantly invested in the continued distribution of their message and had some limits of restraint. In those same times there were conmen with no restraint whatsoever, but it was much less likely they would have a medium in which to spread widely so it limited their audience. With cable TV and internet we have developed an unlimited medium to a 24/7 hour audience anywhere in seconds. Truly monumental amounts of garbage and trash can be generated and fed to a hungry audience. They get their own little sheltered realities of junk food information in which they never have to leave.

AtNightWeCode 3y ago
You are right and I am not sure where my mind is right now. Isaac Asimov is on my bucket list to read. At least the trilogy.