Baldur Bjarnason on Nostr: “Here’s a new way to lose an argument online: the appeal to AI - The Verge” ...
“Here’s a new way to lose an argument online: the appeal to AI - The Verge”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/23/24326077/i-asked-chatgptSince I've been re-reading Postman, it strikes me that LLMs replicate the surface structure of a literary epistemology that people associate with authority and that looks indistinguishable from actual authority to those who operate within the epistemology of showmanship that dominates social media, video, and chat.
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