Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!snipe.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells Subject: Re: For openers I submit an article that can get the ball rolling Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 11:34:37 +0100 Organization: Sn!peCo World Wide Wading Birds Lines: 48 Message-ID: <1qbdzga.oank4o1a73xjhN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> References: <20230518182614.4718a0373c61b6867a4dd7ea@none.net> <1qayaze.102hure1t9r4cuN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <1qbdv8j.y2vhnv1vt2dc5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com> Reply-To: snipeco.1@gmail.com (Sn!pe) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: snipe.eternal-september.org; posting-host="f7101987bc77ca3e5fb5f29139bf5e8d"; logging-data="422605"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ki0aZHHC5ZWW+TAPrHHGA" User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.8.6b1 (ed136d9b90) (Mac OS 10.14.6) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LxUIEEtTKCD97t3NuRYNonb995E= X-Validate: All genuine Sn!peCo articles contain the header: "Injection-Info: snipe.eternal-september.org;" my registered FQDN. X-Disclaimer: Any advice that I may give is worth only what I paid for it. This article comprises only my personal opinions unless otherwise stated. May contain traces of nuts. X-Copyright: Copyright (c) 2023 Sn!peCo WWWB, All Rights Reserved. This article may be reproduced for the purposes of propagation and personal use only, no commercial use without express permission. X-Tongue-In-Cheek: Always X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett; WonK; Large Enid; Peter Green; Jeff Beck X-Face: 5 wrote: [Sn!pe] > > In your article above, you appear to have used the chat machine exactly > > as an answer machine, have you not? > > Yes, and if I were smart, I'd have asked it for references. > > As it goes, I could get a list of URL's out of it by asking for reference > URL's for each test: > > https://chat.openai.com/share/016e5f52-1353-4274-ae04-b677d3c0187d > > > Whatever, I too wonder about the accuracy of the answer. In the absence > > of citations we have no way to check other than by searching for them > > with a real search engine, or relying on e.g. Wikipedia that ~does~ > > provide cites. > > Well, if you ask it right, sometimes it will give you references. > (Sometimes...) > > > Imagine the utility of having an all too plausible disinformation engine > > readily available to e.g. an unscrupulous politician. > > You can always verify what it says -- and since I didn't do that with my > ChatGPT conversation before, I would say I gave a poor example. > > IAW, I see your point. > When it comes to disinformation: I rather doubt that those who might be influenced by and are the target of such disinformation are even aware of the possibility of verification. Don't forget, these are people who have been brought up to believe every answer that a pocket calculator might give them, mis-keyings notwithstanding. Such ill-educated people (i.e. 99% of the population) don't even have the concept of a sanity check. "I've read it in the paper / seen it on TV / the computer says" therefore it must be true. Do I have a poor opinion of my gullible fellow man, or at least those from generations after us boomers (we who were trained to question the potentially suspect information that we were fed)? Damn right I do. These lumpen, uncritical, masses are what wannabe tyrants rely upon. -- ^Ï^. – Sn!pe – My pet rock Gordon is humming: # Climb up on my knee, Suni Boi -- Al Johnson.