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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
For me, it does not change anything. I have been in online communities since the late '80s. There have been very few indeed where I had a meaningful relationship to actual humans (small local/regional ...
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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
If a few people pass off AI answers as their own, it is bound to make people more sceptical. But the quality of the answer is the main thing. There are two risks to SE, I think:-
If the answers get ...
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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
Excellent question. But, I think you're looking at it the wrong way.
If you view philosophy and language to be a tool that helps us to model reality, then what you are after is the best model you can ...
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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
The problem, in me humble opinion, lies elsewhere ... we're barking up the wrong tree. I'm not as worried about ChatGPT's prowess with words but with the rather disturbing ease with which ...
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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
Tools like GPT are the culmination of decades of research spanning neuroscience, philosophy of mind and language, the mathematical theory of communication, as well as animal studies of learning which ...
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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
GenAI is a threat, because language is compression.
It's valid to treat the exact same statement made by a middle-schooler and by a seasoned professional differently. Because one cannot possibly have ...
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