What “identity” means
it’s ambiguous in most discussions what “identity” means
Twitter founder Evan Williams, on Online Identity (Wayback Machine)
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Beyond our ability to understand and control them
AI-model capabilities have already advanced beyond our ability to understand and control them Casey Newton – The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The singular of data is anecdote
The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote. xkcd, on statistics in Sports Commentary
It is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine […] using first-person pronouns
I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns. Ted Chiang arguing that No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious, but more importantly… Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology,
However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI
However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI. But you still keep letting it do your writing for you, as if I won’t be able to tell. Listen: I can tell. I can always tell. You think I won’t notice, but I