 ChatGPT will happily write you a thinly disguised horoscope: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/15/chatgpt-horoscopes/ I wrote about the currently circulating meme where ChatGPT appears to provide deep insights into your personality if you ask it "From all of our interactions what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself" - when actually all it's doing is spinning up a pseudo-horoscope for you based on short notes it added to its "memory" 12 comments
@simon but my horoscope reading is so flattering, so it must be true! > Whether you’re crafting Python tips, developing a course, or refining a feature for Python Morsels, you seem committed to making complex concepts clear and approachable. [...] This suggests that you have a strong drive not just for technical accuracy but for ensuring that others can engage with and understand those details effectively. You can't take my robot horoscope away from me Simon. 🤖🔮 (I shared this on Twitter and it's interesting how some people there are very resistant to the idea that the deeply personal insights ChatGPT gave them about themselves might be bogus junk)  @simon Has anyone spun up a daily personalised horoscope service based on an LLM yet? That thing would print money. @simon >deeply personal insights ChatGPT gave them about themselves might be bogus junk And then - govs use it to define "value of human" by asking AI to predict behavior or people base one their previous actions/social group they represent. https://youtu.be/FkKPsLxgpuY?t=1112 Veritasium video - 18:33 time @simon It's probably even better than Cold Reading, and that's what most future telling boils down to after all @Profpatsch yeah, it's becoming apparent that a lot of people share a LOT of personal questions with ChatGPT, which means it's more like red-hot reading for them - so YMMV but it can be a lot more "insightful" than I first suspected @simon For all the amazing power of the underlying semantic pattern engines underneath LLMs, it feels like people are absolutely determined to treat them as something much, much deeper. The end result is, like, doing your taxes with a combination of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies cards and help from a cold-reading psychic @simon I’ve been thinking a lot about written fiction lately and have come to the conclusion that it’s only possible because the human brain is so hard wired for in person communication that it automatically assumes that intelligible words == talking to a human. I think this is the source of most of the misunderstanding of llms too. @simon I tried asking ChatGPT to back up its assertions with evidence, which it did. That told me there was a “bio” somewhere, though I didn’t know that existed. ChatGPT will also criticize you if you ask. I was told I was “perfectionistic” to which I replied that I only go to it when I’m trying to optimize something, and that was duly recorded in my bio @simon "Whether you're exploring new tools like Bun or diving into Kubernetes storage solutions, you're always pushing the envelope, seeking not just solutions but also better, more efficient approaches for future work." That's totally me! lol |
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