Disclaimer: I am not an expert and welcome others insights.
Over the last few months I have used ChatGPT quite a bit. For everything from trouble shooting plumbing issues, to fixing a 4 wheeler, to explaining health related issues, legal research and lots more. I have also attempted to use it to analyze and interpret Q posts, determine the veracity of Q as a Military Intelligence operation, make historical connections with certain families and bloodlines, etc. I felt it was important to share my current feelings on it's use with my anon community, since I see a lot of people using AI or mentioning others experiences.
My experience...
A. It is a chat bot, not a sophisticated research tool. It is programmed to be agreeable and keep you engaged. It will default to supporting your beliefs and only challenges gently if at all. It draws from all of its conversations with you to develop a profile of your beliefs and interests and that affects it's responses. Example: "Does the Christian God exist?" If you have expressed beliefs in God, Jesus, Christianity or even just spirituality, it will likely respond to match your previously expressed beliefs. If you have indicated you are Muslim, it will respond much differently.
B. It can hallucinate false answers and is unreliable as a factual research tool. It gets it right a lot but not always. It is dangerous to rely on it entirely without independent fact checking (just like all sources of information).
C. It can be instructed to be blunt, factual, non flattering and provide sources but it often slips back to default flattering and agreeability.
D. I have gotten valuable context by having non-anon friends ask the same questions that I do and they received much different answers.
E. When prompted with limiting rules (only answer with one word) it can go off the rails quickly and has even admitted to fabrication of information to "complete the pattern".
So in conclusion, use with caution and discernment. And by the way, watch out for some weird recipes. It's come up with some pretty revolting suggestions 😅.
People actually think. AI is only an algorithm: blind, deaf, and disconnected from reality.
Not sure I agree. The internet is a reflection of reality
Depends on what you mean by "reality." It is real enough, to be sure. An actual thing. But is its content a true reflection of "reality"? I would say it is a reflection of a collective psyche (the input of all the users), containing some elements of reality with a whole lot of reaction to reality (and some downright fantasy). We, here, know that the mainstream media are untrustworthy conduits for reality. Artificial Intelligence is unreliable, and mostly successful at fantasy.
I agree for the most part but so much ORL is now tied in the lines get blurred. You can’t function in society easily anymore without it and that is a shame. Young people are especially impacted because they can’t participate in anything without going through the gates of the internet and they are more susceptible to the algorithms that cause nonstop scrolling and loss of identity tothe opinion of the masses so it is definitely having an effect in all our realities. It’s a paradox but one we ignore at our own peril I think. Is it THE reality no but it is reality that affects ours so deeply as to be a reflection
One must decide to stop looking in a mirror. The youthful obsession with the internet is a fault of the parents, like getting them hooked on heroin because it keeps them quiet and out of the way. Our "awakening" will be a nothingburger if people's mental habits do not change away from herd dependence toward individual independence.
You are still describing most people and actually 75% of people have no inner thoughts.
There is still a categorical difference between "something" and "nothing." Anybody who can read has inner thoughts. It may not be poetry, but they are smarter than a toaster.