As a science fiction author I have gone from "ai is probably going to be brilliant" to "ai might be demonic" and then to "ai is a tool people are using to abandon their humanity" in about six months.
I know so-called writers who stopped writing months ago, who slap their jaded names on books vomited out by machines. I know a guy in my office job who used chatGPT to write part of a love poem to his girlfriend.
And I am struggling to see these people as intelligent, and intelligence precedes compassion. They think their love, their humanity, can be replaced, perhaps because their brand of it can.
If he can be swapped out for a greetings card with pseudo sentience, so be it.
The problem is some of those involved in AI are also those involved in the transhumanism movement. I mean some of those that have created AI.
As a science fiction author I have gone from "ai is probably going to be brilliant" to "ai might be demonic" and then to "ai is a tool people are using to abandon their humanity" in about six months.
I know so-called writers who stopped writing months ago, who slap their jaded names on books vomited out by machines. I know a guy in my office job who used chatGPT to write part of a love poem to his girlfriend.
And I am struggling to see these people as intelligent, and intelligence precedes compassion. They think their love, their humanity, can be replaced, perhaps because their brand of it can.
If he can be swapped out for a greetings card with pseudo sentience, so be it.