Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It

Paul Ford writes entertainingly about generative AI as being a shameless technology, for better or worse.

But what chance did it ever have when its creators and owners also lack that quality?

Hilariously, the makers of ChatGPT—AI people in general—keep trying to teach these systems shame, in the form of special preambles, rules, guidance…

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But the current crop of AI leadership is absolutely unsuited to this work. They are themselves shameless, grasping at venture capital and talking about how their products will run the world, asking for billions or even trillions in investment. They insist we remake civilization around them and promise it will work out. But how are they going to teach a computer to behave if they can’t?