“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-chatgpt
Since 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.
Baldur Bjarnason /
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