"Bullshit is 'any utterance produced where a speaker has indifference towards the truth of the utterance'. That explanation, in turn, is divided into two "species": hard bullshit, which occurs when there is an agenda to mislead, or soft bullshit, which is uttered without agenda.
"ChatGPT is at minimum a soft bullshitter or a bullshit machine, because if it is not an agent then it can neither hold any attitudes towards truth nor towards deceiving hearers about its (or, perhaps more properly, its users') agenda."
I was bored so I did the unthinkable. Well, to me it was always unthinkable as I have always been anti- #ai. But, out of curiosity I subscribed to #ChatGPT -4o and have been feeding various essays, poems, and posts from my various websites and asking for explications and such. And wow does #ChatGPT4o have a great deal of just wonderful things to say about me. I will admit getting all this truly high praise is seducing.
Okay. So I have been using #ChatGPT for a couple of hours and there is no doubt in my mind that many, many, many college students are using #ChatGPT4o to write essays. I am so, so, so sorry #AcademicChatter professors and lecturers. I am so glad this was not around when I was in school. First colleges across the country started shutting down extensive #writing courses/programs and now this. Oh, what a loss of a good #education.
"While ChatGPT-4 correlates closely with established risk stratification tools regarding mean scores, its inconsistency when presented with identical patient data on separate occasions raises concerns about its reliability."
Heston TF, Lewis LM (2024) ChatGPT provides inconsistent risk-stratification of patients with atraumatic chest pain. PLOS ONE 19(4): e0301854. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301854
ChatGPT hallucinates fake but plausible scientific citations at a staggering rate, study finds
"MacDonald found that a total of 32.3% of the 300 citations generated by ChatGPT were hallucinated. Despite being fabricated, these hallucinated citations were constructed with elements that appeared legitimate — such as real authors who are recognized in their respective fields, properly formatted DOIs, and references to legitimate peer-reviewed journals."
Every time, you think it couldn't get any worse, a new revelation tops it off. As an author, I wonder how long it will take for the book market to be completely enshittified.
Thank you for the #giftArticle! ⬆️ @writers@bookstodon
People will either delegate their tasks to AI and become detached and uninformed, or they'll have a perfectly patient personal instructor that will help them drastically expand their knowledge. Likely, it will be a mix of both, and we should advocate for the latter. It'll be interesting, watching the future unravel.
"The main objective of this scientific study was to see whether AI could be used in a scientifically appropriate manner to improve the scientific writing process. Indeed, AI reduced the time for writing but had significant inaccuracies. The latter necessitates that AI cannot currently be used alone but could be used with careful oversight by humans to assist in writing scientific review articles."
FWIW, here's my draft policy on bullshit generators like #ChatGPT in my classes. Any thoughts?
Stochastic Parrots 🦜
It isn't my style to forbid you from using technology in your learning, but if at any point you consider using generative tools, please pause for a moment.
Remember that these tools do not possess any meaningful form of intelligence. They are statistical generators of likely word sequence, not writers of meaningful content. 1/2
On the #enshitification of #academic#publishing. Where scientists burn the candle at both ends, paying to read and publish their work, in what is the ultimate grift.
Sometimes I'm called upon to teach a writing intensive capstone class where the main assignment has been a review paper. Given #GenerativeAI, I've been wondering what to do differently. Helping students improve their writing is totally different now...that's all I know.
I found this article:
The role of ChatGPT in scientific communication: writing better scientific review articles
@dogzilla@eilonwy@rspfau@academicchatter to be fair, I don't dislike that - teaching is not just about passing on knowledge, it's also about preparing students for the next steps in life.
Whether we like it or not - #generativeAI will be with us going forward, so might as well teach how to extract its benefits - e.g. examples of how to build and use #ChatGPT bots, etc... #academicchatter#ai
Ich habe gestern mit den neuen GPTs von OpenAI rumgespielt und mir letztendlich für meine aktuellen Projekte drei tatsächlich hilfreiche Chatbots erstellt.
Say hello to "Linux Server Admin Assistant", "Bricks Builder Assistant" und "Kirby CMS Advisor". Derzeit frei verfügbar für alle, die es brauchen und ein Abo für ChatGPT abgeschlossen haben.
"Das ist nicht die Zukunft, aber man kann sie von hier aus sehen" (DXHR)
Yesterday I played around with the new GPTs from OpenAI and ended up creating three actually helpful chatbots for my current projects.
Say hello to “Linux Server Admin Assistant”, “Bricks Builder Assistant” and “Kirby CMS Advisor”. Currently freely available to anyone who needs it and has a ChatGPT subscription.
“This is not the future, but you can see it from here” (DXHR)
Yesterday I played around with the new GPTs from OpenAI and ended up creating three actually helpful chatbots for my current projects.
Say hello to “Linux Server Admin Assistant”, “Bricks Builder Assistant” and “Kirby CMS Advisor”. Currently freely available to anyone who needs it and has a ChatGPT subscription.
“This is not the future, but you can see it from here” (DXHR)
The ancientJewish mysticism of Kabbalah, which finds deep meaning in sequences of letters and numbers, resonates in generative #AI like #ChatGPT, robots and DNA coding.
“Like the golem, robots, androids and even AI are powered with recombinations of elemental units. Instead of Hebrew letters, the units are ones and zeros. In both instances, the specific permutation makes all the difference.”