Look, I’m not really one to care either way about the fucking thing. It’s a tool. That’s all I’ll say.
But normies (or at least a certain subset), now, are fucking obsessed with the thing. Like, it’s absolutely cult-like, with the usual slavish devotion, the complete unwillingness to accept any criticism, and, perhaps most importantly, a massive overestimation of just what the thing is capable of, and what it can do…
Stupid fuckers genuinely believe that they can have some version of “fully automated luxury gay space communism”, just because of the last couple of years of AI hype, and the fact that it can write better essays than their utterly pathetic selves can even come up with…
Like, fuck, I’ve even had teachers going on and on about how this brilliant device will “save us all, and allow us to be our full transcendent selves”…
The ignorance is astounding. The utter hype-following and clout-chasing is even worse…
Like, yes, the “creatives” worrying for their jobs can be annoying, but they’re nothing on the hype-cultists who have jumped on this bandwagon to the point of basing their entire futures on what they think this fucking system is going to do “for them”…
It’s like the first smartphones all over again, but somehow so much worse…
/endrant
"Normies" are literally too stupid to notice the patterns it repeats, or imagine that grammar is made up of logical rules and associations that can be consumed and reproduced in different combinations. The obelisk speaks. It must be intelligent.
I'm starting to believe that maybe GPT is at or beyond their level. Do we have evidence that human NPCs express any original thoughts? Maybe most human minds are simple language models spitting out learned and regurgitated templates.
The same spiel is given for UBI. It's a warped belief in Maslow's Hierarchy as law. Not even going to ask how they expect the economy to function if nobody is working, but that ain't this anyway. Thankfully Teaching is one of the professions we can easily automate away.