Ian Bogost wrote an article for the Atlantic titled ChatGPT Is About to Dump More Work on Everyone (February 2, 2023).
« Now, in addition to everything else we have to do, we also have to make time for the labor of distinguishing between human and AI, and the bureaucracy that will be built around it. »
« OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT, has introduced a new tool that tries to determine the likelihood that a chunk of text you provide was AI-generated… As OpenAI explains, the tool will likely yield a lot of false positives and negatives... In one example, given the first lines of the Book of Genesis, the software concluded that it was likely to be AI-generated. » [What’s the point of a such an unreliable “tool”?]
« The situation extends well beyond education. Almost a decade ago, I diagnosed a condition I named hyperemployment. Thanks to computer technology, most professionals now work a lot more than they once did. In part, that’s because email and groupware and laptops and smartphones have made taking work home much easier—you can work around the clock if nobody stops you. But also, technology has allowed, and even required, workers to take on tasks that might otherwise have been carried out by specialists as their full-time job. Software from SAP, Oracle, and Workday force workers to do their own procurement and accounting. Data dashboards and services make office workers part-time business analysts. On social media, many people are now de facto marketers and PR agents for their division and themselves. »
« If your class can be gamed by an AI, then it was badly designed in the first place! »
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