The ideology behind AI may be best thought of as careless anti-humanism. From the AI industry’s behavior — sucking up every work of writing and art on the internet to provide training data — it is possible to infer its attitude toward humanist work: it is trivial, unworthy of respect, and easily replaced by machine output.
Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini are marketed as “time-saving” devices meant to spare me the work of writing and thinking. But I don’t want to avoid those things. Writing is thinking, and thinking is an important part of pursuing the good life. Reading is also thinking, and a miraculous kind. Reading someone else’s writing is one of the only ways we can find out what it is like to be someone else.
— Read on www.theverge.com/openai/624209/chatgpt-ethics-specs-humanism
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