"not to worry, since no entertainment exec will get software onto a casting couch" This is why AI will never replace you. Still laughing days after first reading this.
The essay… nauseating. You’d never say those things. Jeez, it sounded like something you’d hear any garden variety PSU professor put down. Predictable…
No one can emulate or fake your great style of writing. Nope. Nopity nope. Interesting article, but worrisome about what this means to the future. I like that Elon Musk has been trying to warn people about AI. He’s such a brilliant man. Who else heard about that robot, with AI that flipped out and tried to become its own person? So to speak. Can’t recall all the details, but wow. Visions of Blade Runner come to mind…
Actually, I assumed Richard wrote this to try to imitate how ChatGPT would likely neuter any of the bite, and misinterpret the irony and sarcasm of his essays. Fooled me!
You can relax, it’s not even close to capturing your witty sarcasm and brilliant characterizations of Portland’s finest. You’ve got job security for a wee bit longer. (God help us)
Good God. What's most alarming about ChatGPT isn't its ability to produce creditable essays in the blink of an eye. It's that it emerged from the lab with fully developed progressive sensibilities. What else could explain the robot's failure to mention the dissent against progressive excesses that characterizes the Portland Dissent substack?
Having graded exams at a local institution of higher learning for a few terms, I'm aware of just how readily students will plagiarize. I also know how underprepared many Oregon high school graduates are to express themselves effectively in grammatical English. Graders will need to bear in mind that if a student's written work sounds polished it probably isn't their own.
If we're lucky, ChatGBT's proficiency in written English will cause it to be called out by the usual censorious suspects on the grounds that correct spelling and grammar are a manifestation of white supremacy culture.
ChatGPT doesn't feel pain, fear, despair, or frustration. It doesn't "care". It doesn't have any "skin in the game". Seems like a good writer has to "bleed" a little on paper as they intellectually reconcile the emotions that drove them to write. On that level, ChatGPT is just a cute wind-up toy that regurgitates words from an immense database.
That AI generated column is horrible. It is watered down pablum compared to the insightful snark of Richard Cheverton about the sad state of the “new Portland”.
Yuk. Trite, sappy sloganeering and shallow, suspect conclusions. It could write copy for TV ads though, since depth and honest representation would be neither required or desirable. I think you’re safe, Richard - at least for now.
If THAT is the future, we are either doomed (if we hoped to rely on AI for real creativity) or we are saved, because few things can truly imitate irony and wit.
This sounds like someone trying to IMITATE Richard Cheverton, and not very well!
"not to worry, since no entertainment exec will get software onto a casting couch" This is why AI will never replace you. Still laughing days after first reading this.
The essay… nauseating. You’d never say those things. Jeez, it sounded like something you’d hear any garden variety PSU professor put down. Predictable…
No one can emulate or fake your great style of writing. Nope. Nopity nope. Interesting article, but worrisome about what this means to the future. I like that Elon Musk has been trying to warn people about AI. He’s such a brilliant man. Who else heard about that robot, with AI that flipped out and tried to become its own person? So to speak. Can’t recall all the details, but wow. Visions of Blade Runner come to mind…
Boring. Perfect for The Oregonian. Philip K Dick imagined this a long time ago.
That is the worst prose, pathetic, fawning, juvenile, and lacking any awareness of Richard’s personality and his sense of connection to his readers.
Actually, I assumed Richard wrote this to try to imitate how ChatGPT would likely neuter any of the bite, and misinterpret the irony and sarcasm of his essays. Fooled me!
You can relax, it’s not even close to capturing your witty sarcasm and brilliant characterizations of Portland’s finest. You’ve got job security for a wee bit longer. (God help us)
Good God. What's most alarming about ChatGPT isn't its ability to produce creditable essays in the blink of an eye. It's that it emerged from the lab with fully developed progressive sensibilities. What else could explain the robot's failure to mention the dissent against progressive excesses that characterizes the Portland Dissent substack?
Having graded exams at a local institution of higher learning for a few terms, I'm aware of just how readily students will plagiarize. I also know how underprepared many Oregon high school graduates are to express themselves effectively in grammatical English. Graders will need to bear in mind that if a student's written work sounds polished it probably isn't their own.
If we're lucky, ChatGBT's proficiency in written English will cause it to be called out by the usual censorious suspects on the grounds that correct spelling and grammar are a manifestation of white supremacy culture.
ChatGPT doesn't feel pain, fear, despair, or frustration. It doesn't "care". It doesn't have any "skin in the game". Seems like a good writer has to "bleed" a little on paper as they intellectually reconcile the emotions that drove them to write. On that level, ChatGPT is just a cute wind-up toy that regurgitates words from an immense database.
That AI generated column is horrible. It is watered down pablum compared to the insightful snark of Richard Cheverton about the sad state of the “new Portland”.
AI has nothing on you!
Reads like The Oregonian.
Yuk. Trite, sappy sloganeering and shallow, suspect conclusions. It could write copy for TV ads though, since depth and honest representation would be neither required or desirable. I think you’re safe, Richard - at least for now.
It doesn’t have your wit and snark and boots on the ground perspective.
Agreed! Doesn't sound anything like you!
If THAT is the future, we are either doomed (if we hoped to rely on AI for real creativity) or we are saved, because few things can truly imitate irony and wit.
This sounds like someone trying to IMITATE Richard Cheverton, and not very well!