Gregory's Server@adamgreenfield @tomw I was just going to bring up that Borges story, only the Library of ChatGPT is even worse. Most of the texts in the Library of Babel are obvious nonsense. The Library of ChatGPT is filled with superficially-valid texts.
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 @ergative @avram @adamgreenfield @tomw there's stuff even more wrong, and more convincing, and more dangerous in the library of Babel than ChatGPT could ever generate @zenten @ergative @adamgreenfield @tomw It occurs to me that the Library of Babel contains both all of the spells for summoning Cthulhu, Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, etc, and all of the spells for banishing them. As well as all of the spells for summoning them *mislabeled* as spells for banishing them. |
@avram @adamgreenfield @tomw
Of course, the Library of Babel also contains all the ChatGPT nonsense, as well as the alphabet soup and word salad. Does that make it worse or better?
Better, because the alphabet soup and word salad remind the reader that there's a lot of nonsense in the library?
Or worse, because in the midst of all the gibberish the superficially plausible ChatGPT books look like the real thing?
(I lean towards the latter. The parallels really are chilling.)
@avram @adamgreenfield @tomw
Of course, the Library of Babel also contains all the ChatGPT nonsense, as well as the alphabet soup and word salad. Does that make it worse or better?
Better, because the alphabet soup and word salad remind the reader that there's a lot of nonsense in the library?
Or worse, because in the midst of all the gibberish the superficially plausible ChatGPT books look like the real thing?