Wandering Adventure Party

@joe @feike Disagree, nobody should use ChatGPT in the first place—it's not an AI, it's a mindless autocomplete function that exploits a human cognitive weakness.

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results.

(Me: nothing to add here, it'd be like dynamiting fish in a barrel.)

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results.

Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

@atomicpoet @Lazarou This is CLEAR EVIDENCE that our strain of humanity evolved on a planet orbiting a red dwarf star! WHITE PEOPLE ARE ALIENS. Where is my saucer ride home?

@ckeen @MicroSFF No it won't! (The Laundry Files end in May 2015, the subsequent New Management series has only gotten as far as 2017, and the fictional universe is therefore blessedly free of LLMs.)

@davidtheeviloverlord @lilithsaintcrow Thanks, hadn't seen it. This Freedman dude seems to have all-but-plagiarized my talk and Scientific American op-ed from 2023:

Original talk from Next Frontiers Applied Fiction Day:
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html

and SciAm condensed version:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/

@lilithsaintcrow (Sits up) What Guardian article? Did they by any chance finally get around to reading my Torment Nexus rant—and presumably misunderstanding it?