I skimmed this criticism of Pokimane and got to the fourth paragraph before I realized I was reading a chatGPT output. The emdashes are the most obvious giveaway, but the constant restatements and trouble with building conclusions are also clear tells, if a little more subtle.
In this case I agree overall with the post, but GPT (or grok - they all write the same) argued the point for the poster and did a mediocre job overall, especially for a post with 3M views. More troubling is that the guy insists he wrote the whole thing himself, which has apparently fooled thousands of people. He's far from the only one, either. It's not uncommon to see people using AI to respond to an argument.
I don't know where this is going. AI is a powerful force multiplier, but if more and more people outsource their writing to it, we will eventually get to a soft version of dead internet theory where real people are volleying back and forth with GPT responses but don't fully understand what they're saying to each other. Scammers and grifters will almost be indistinguishable, superficially. I'm surprised the Indian contingent hasn't figured out how to use GPT outputs en masse, but I'm sure it's coming.
The only hope is that people will develop enough AI literacy to recognize automated content. We'll see if this happens.
Were you under the impression that the general population is reasonably literate?
They read Harry Potter. Until they were told to hate the author, anyway.
Counterpoint. The vast majority of them watched Harry Potter. Most people who claim to have read the books could not tell you a plot point that didn't occur in the films.
The average person reads only well enough to get by and that's it. They are all functionally illiterate in that they could not consume, finish and then explain to you an actual book. Most people have the attention span of an insect.
Just look at the degradation of user interfaces in the last ten years for another example. Stuffed full of symbols and icons and pictures.
That's probably true of any live action adaptations. Ask the same group, or similar ones, who Tom Bombadil is and wait.
To be clear: reading Harry Potter does not necessarily correlate with an even moderate degree of linguistic comprehension. It would make you an expert on adverbs, but they're the most immature part of speech.
Oh I've done that and it's hilarious. One guy was damn sure it was a character from Daniel Tiger.
Hey Thom Ho Thom What have we got here?
I dunno man, I remember the crowds at the bookstore for multiple Harry Potter midnight launches. There was a good number of people who read those books and it wasn't just the nerds and bookworms.
I'm sure they closed the cover eventually. But literacy isn't about just flipping pages. It's about comprehension, understanding and most importantly retention.
Harry Potter is actually high praise compared to what they really read. Modern women’s “literature” is some of the most soul sucking, brain dead, drivel that basically is just really bad rape porn drawn out in bastardized Jane Austen sequence. Don’t even get me started on the mass publishing of books in Ebonics now, leftist “literature” is more inebriating than tv could dream of being.
My wife bought a kindle (I actually love the thing, makes reading Wheel of Time super easy) but it's an Amazon product so it's full of ads for girl books. Basically every one of them is some variation of:
"Billionaire doctor/lawyer/whatever is a bad boy who loves (basic white girl protagonist) for no particular reason. Did I mention he's a bad boy?"
How big is he dick?
I mean... that's a book written for 5th graders.
I know right?!!
I've been trying to tell everyone that everyone is functionally illiterate for years. They call me crazy and stupid at first, but inevitably, they learn the truth. No one reads anything ever.
Well, in fairness, given your ability to produce voluminous walls of words, maybe they just haven't made it to the end of your theses before they give up and start calling names?
Well, I mean, I'm not saying that didn't happen.