This person also “asked ChatGPT” if another writer on the panel went by her middle name or her first initial plus middle name,” instead of just… asking her
The other writer didn’t make it to the panel, unfortunately, but this person also mistook me for her (we are both Chinese American women)—even after I’d introduced myself—so it was *kind of* like she was there anyway
There is something here about the dogged insistence on clinging to “facts” from generative AI and trying to overwrite reality to match them, even when those “facts” are clearly untrue
AI’s tenancy to make unhinged statements with confidence is matched only by public speakers on the political right.
That said—and not dismissive of your overall point—I do think that’s a lower-case “L” between two single quotation marks, not a “T.”
it is just a glorified predictive text generator! Like if I start mashing whatever the first suggested word in my phone's keyboard, it might start out coherent but eventually the same Day service and the other day and I will be in the morning and then we can do it for you to the same Day service and
It drives me crazy when boosters say "But it'll get better!" That implies it's any good NOW. It's not. Technologies that "get better" at least start from a position of being good at something.
Plus, getting better dosn't mean it'll ever become good.
Automated driving systems are also "Getting Better" they still keep fucking up or actively trying to kill people.
Autocorrect is getting better but it still fucks up every 20th word and completely choaks on technical language.
"Getting better" is a deflection. It's meant to stop conversation before you can ask critical question or hold the boosters accountable for misuse. Everything "gets better" but like you said, there's no promise (or likelihood) it'll be viable
