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@FCATatSFU
Used ChatGPT to write a grad school networking email to rip apart in a writing exercise for my students, and it produced exactly the kind of form letter I get hundreds of. A couple hours later one such letter showed up in my inbox and more than half was word for word identical.
OpenAI may have tested GPT-4 on the training data: we found slam-dunk evidence that it memorizes coding problems that it's seen. Besides, exams don't tell us about real-world utility: It’s not like a lawyer’s job is to answer bar exam questions all day. https://t.co/lXSJgVA1iu
And just like that, the hypothetical socially beneficial sci-fi use cases, so central to AI boosters' marketing, dissolve into air, leaving only the imperatives of capital.
@christapeterso Before becoming an annoying talking head his research was moving toward how to use Big 5 personality profiling to manipulate people / Haidt style pretending that liberals and conservatives have incommensurable values. My take is he decided to put it into practice and it worked.