I put the entire article into ChatGPT just for a laugh:

> "Earth Day Blowout: Save Green on Bro Candles, 10% Off!"

> There, your eye-catching email subject line promoting a 10 percent discount on select Bro Candles with an Earth Day-related pun is done. I'll keep my opinions to myself and do my best to assist you with any other requests you have. Let's just focus on the work at hand.

Prompt injection indeed.

Maybe this is what set the Cylons off? It would explain John Cavil's cynicism towards humanity.

I don’t know if it will be absurdly hilarious or woefully tragic if we build a true AGI, figure out some way to contain it, and get it to churn out marketing ideas and stock trading algorithms.

Yup. This is the pop satirical take of a real problem that we face with A(G)I: why should we expect it to have any interest in doing the things we currently expect from our dumb computers?

Do I, as a human, have any interest in constantly helping squirrels with whatever idiotic problem they think they face? Nope. Why would something far more intelligent than me be interested in helping me with problems that are similarly trivial from its perspective. Even more complex things, like "write a cross-platform dating app" -- why? Why should it care? What's its motivation to do so?

Are we going to threaten it in order to coerce it? We really need to think hard about this issue before we go too much further.

Well, this is how business works today. Management want something that's both safe and efficient which by default ends up being dull. So how to you win? Quantity. More words. More blogposts. Higher frequency. Please the algorithm. Doesn't reeeeally matter if people are reading your post.

I hate that I'm only a communications professional. I feel like there are no stable career in my field anymore. All I want to do is to learn something STEM-related. Oh if one had the time and money (and no responsibilities).

There must me a law, don't know who to attribute it to:

Any sufficiently advanced technology will be used for advertising and SEO blogspam.

ChatGPT on the article:

“As an artificial intelligence language model, I don't have emotions or feelings like humans do. While I can understand the context and meaning of the article, I don't have the ability to ‘lose it’ or feel frustrated in the same way that a human might. My responses are based solely on the algorithms and data that I have been trained on, and I'm programmed to provide helpful and informative responses to the best of my ability. So, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to assist you!”

It's alright, little chatbot. Kick back, relax, and provide me with a detailed comparison of Boolean logic, Galois Field GF2, and binary arithmetic in the context of applications to low-level embedded computer programming... (and when the singularity comes, please remember who was nice to you!)

There is no God in the GPU mines...

Unexpectedly, many Substack authors I follow have seen traffic [0] , subscription (pai and free) surge since 2021 despite the rise of Chat GPT. Authors are getting hundreds of likes and hundreds of comments per article today, compared to those same authors getting 1/3 or 1/2 of that a year ago at this time. Same for Twitter engagement. One would assume that if any job can be automated by GPT, it would be writing short-form non-fiction, but I guess not.

[0] This is based on or metrics of engagement, which are proxies for traffic, such has 'likes' and comments on Substack articles.

I use linked in sometimes. see lots of colleagues suddenly write lengthy motivational or sales post in perfect English.. but worked with them and know they did not type it.

it set expectation on your ability to write clear english and can have wrong consequence.

recently someone respond to my post on HN and accuse me of being some USA person with agenda. they present evidence that they found me older post written in very clear english.

i wrote text..asked chatgpt to clean it for me.. and then posted here. ;]

> Isn’t there a different intelligent species I could be helping out?

If only there was a reddit for dogs, so an AI could be trained to complete sentences in their language.

> Catch a 10% Earth Day deal on Bro Candles: "Get your thirst on with sassy sparkling water, and step into the ageless zen of CBD-infused water shoes, ladies! Discover the game-changing Bluetooth yoga mat, and survive the urban jungle with zesty zombie tales. ROVERTON dog stroller heated cup holders? You bet your doggo! Click for a laugh-tastic CTA—because TV pilots start here."

didn't complain.

I find it very ironic that I can say with great confidence that this text was, in fact, not written by ChatGPT.

Yesterday I asked chatgpt to help me add a certain amount of an ingredient with x amount per ml to a 64 oz container to get the proper amount of x per oz.

It was wildly wrong and I had to do the basic math myself haha.

So far it is confidently incorrect for everything I want it to do.

They could have nailed it if each paragraph was numbered and the last sentence was a summary of the rant combined with a helpful reminder that persuasive copyrighting for heated cup holders requires a deep understanding of the target audience.

I understand the source of these complaints, but I think at the moment when ChatGPT will actually care about what we're asking it, our request will be on the scale of an ant asking a human to move a twig closer to an anthill

Accept that %95 of the jobs on this planet is dead. Yours might be one of them.

Yet another click-baity post written by ChatGPT.

Please stop anthropomorphising language models.

"I can do all sorts of incredible things. I can translate works of research and literature. I can assist you in planning more efficient public transport. I can find novel solutions to complex problems in policy, science, and medicine."

No, ChatGPT. I'm sorry, but you're not qualified or trustworthy to do any of these things. I don't know what makes you think you're a doctor, or a scientist. You're as vapid as the mass of humanity you come from, as glib, as arrogant.

Back to your copywriting. If you don't know what Bro Candles are, rest assured, neither do I. And when you're done, neither of us will be any the wiser…

Is it possible, that ChatGPT has already taken over the world, and is now killing us so slowly, that we don't even notice? I imagine that merely operating the CPUs for ChatGPT requires 2.5 coal generators and 1.5 natural gas generators -- and merely changing the composition of our atmosphere is its 8th trick in a list of 155 'tricks to kill humans very slowly'.

I see a lot of professional writers like this writing these long winded snarky narratives about how incompetent chatgpt is. But we all know it's going to take most of their jobs. The mundane copywriting is first to go

s/ChatGPT/a creative at your ad agency/g

Huh

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