We're so fucked.
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We're so fucked.
"Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing. The resulting enhanced potential for malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base, particularly in politically divisive domains, is a growing concern."
GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation | HKS Misinformation Review
Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers alongside reputable, quality-controlled research. Our analysis of a selection of
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John Timaeusreplied to Carl T. Bergstrom last edited by
Is it time to find a proper Butler and begin a Jihad?
I always thought Herbert was a little over the top. But now I'm not sure. He may have been on to something.
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> Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
> The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines ... Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments.
It’s funny, both Tolkien and Herbert had strong Ludditism in their stories, and many AI nerds are likely fans.