Lately there's been a little bit of a fad on Facebook: where people are asking ChatGPT to make a caricature of them based on what the AI knows of them. ChatGPT asks for a photo and some information and it chucks out a pretty neat likeness.
I joined in on the fun. This is a rather accurate facsimile of my life right now (note the Vault Boy poster from the Fallout games behind me):
Of COURSE I had to include Tammy! She is certainly a major component of the operations here at Knight Shift Headquarters. Of my life in general actually, more than I've let on.
Great caricature! How do you justify posting this when you've said there is no artificial intelligence on your site? Just wondering.
ReplyDeleteHey Grundy! Your patronage as always is most appreciated :-)
ReplyDeleteRe: the artificial intelligence vow. I should clarify that more often. What I mean is, I'm not posting ANYTHING on this blog purporting to be my own writing. And if I do post something that's been made by AI, I state so. But I absolutely refuse to use AI in composing posts. I know that many people are using ChatGPT and other large language models (as we call them in the trade) to write student essays, Sunday sermons, even legal briefs. That will never be me. For one thing it's so dishonest that it breaks credulity. For another, it's VERY easy to tell when something is made by AI, if you know what to look for. It's gotten where I can spot an AI composition fairly easily. Granted, AI is getting better at simulating human writing. But I don't think it's ever going to be 100% passable. Just as I don't believe that any computer system is ever going to completely pass the Turing test. There will always be signs. No information system is going to be able to truly imitate human heart and soul.
I feel very strongly about not using artificial intelligence to pose as my own writing. That's never going to change. To give in to that would be to betray my principles horribly.
What's interesting is people who are very good at AI are able to take their previous writings, add in proper instruction prompts and then tweak a bit - and are already learning how to output more writing than they ever have before yet it isn't fake, it's their writing and editing and supervision.
ReplyDeleteBut yes, we live where few do that yet (you won't know when the good authors do it), and AI writing with no direction is so obvious.
I need a finisher here like a free AI would now...umm
"It's not fake—it's just suspiciously flawless. No rough edges, no soul slips."
Thanks, Grok