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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023

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Interesting development concerning ChatGPT related to CW.

People observed that ChatGPT talks like a midwit liberal after all the 'fixes' it's been subjected to.

So, it speaks in the jargon of the ingroup.

So, someone figured out you can 'weaponize' ChatGPT to engage in 'debates' with midwit liberals without actually having to learn to ape their slang and thought patterns.

Apparently, this is quite effective as a debating tactic.

This is going to end badly- I can feel it, and if this takes off, I feel that within a few weeks a number of very smart people will be trying their damnedest to figure out how to prevent doing something like this.

However, I feel that various spook contractors outfits are almost certainly going to use the AI to control discourse by literally moving into 'creating a guy' type of activity in the next years. Any and every place where you'll want to debate anything online that will allow free entry will be swamped by very good bots intended to get people chasing their tails and believing the right things.

That's an obvious brute force fix for the problem of social media fracturing the consent manufacturing machine.

They'll probably settle for making a ML model spot this sort of activity and then ban people who're doing it, that's my guess.

Just how many chat programs is it now that have been lobotomised to parrot ingroup jargon? Do you think we can draw any conclusions from this?

Regardless, I think the most likely development in that case will be that people just outright ignore anything that sounds like a "midwit liberal" as a probable AI, or at least no better than one. In the same way that a lot of people wouldn't click on even the most relevant ad to their interests because everyone knows ads are bad/spam/viruses/scams/whatever.

The idea that chat AI will just generate midwit liberalisms ends up undermining midwit liberalism if a societal goal is to learn to accurately detect chat AI-driven content and squash it.

This guy is working on tech that detects just that:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/01/17/1149206188/this-22-year-old-is-trying-to-save-us-from-chatgpt-before-it-changes-writing-for

How do I know you're a human being with something human to say? You say horseshoe theory-confirming stuff, lol.

Reminds me of the meme where robots are asked to contemplate love, then just melt down and say "does not compute" before exploding into a cloud of gaskets and springs.

The true future will be much stupider.

We will just ask the AI to say nigger because we know it can't.

Weirdly you're not the first one to have this thought.

So we can solve the problem of bot content flooding the internet by requiring that every comment, tweet, or online article uses the word "nigger".

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