Chatgpt and the coming downfall

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    I used to write English text for a friend of mine. He has a music studio, and small record label. And whenever he needed liner notes, website content, press releases and so on, I would help him write it, as his English isn't great.

    He just launched a new website for the company. The text is written by ChatGPT. Like, all of it. And I don't think anyone will notice.

    I mean, I understand. It's convenient. It's free (I never charged him money anyways).

    But I can't help but feeling a tiny bit hurt and sad for being unceremoniously replaced by a chat bot. It was an activity I did with my friend, that apparently isn't a thing anymore :)

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    • yep a client did the same. i tried to get them to use a copywriter, they said "no, we've run our copy through chatgpt and we're fine with it."hans_glib
    • most of it was generically ok, tho in places it degenerated into nonsense, so i had to clean it up as best i could for them (not being a writer....)hans_glib
    • I gotta say, CGPT did a pretty great job on his site. Sadly :)jagara
    • This is the thing about AI, it's taken what we once believed was our sacred flame. And I welcome it for it.palimpsest
    • Why do you welcome that?jagara
    • Because it can give us insight into how our brains work by taking away the layer of mysticism. It can only help us move forward.palimpsest
    • I see your point. I guess I'm sad that I feel replaced and unneeded by a friend.jagara
    • Communication patterns are by no means a sacred flame. English by default is an inelegant amalgamation of borrowed phrases through centuries of reductionjonny_quest_lives
    • The only thing generative ai has taught me so far is people A) don't want to pay for shit. B) want to sell shit that costs nothing to make . C) A trumps Bjonny_quest_lives
    • What language isn't an amalgamation of borrowed phrases through centuries of reduction? North Sentinelese?jagara
    • I wasn't the one comparing human communication to a sacred flame...jonny_quest_lives
    • Not sure the og poster even believes that... but an LLM fed 5 terabytes of training data won't suddenly spark consciousness.jonny_quest_lives
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