Saying the human “created” the content is a bit of a stretch. The people who created ChatGPT have absolutely no idea what it is going to say to any given prompt. The human creates the function but has limited control over the output.
When I go on the internet to read an article what I want is to experience the world through that other human’s eyes, or more accurately through that other person’s mental models. That person will have accumulated those mental models through every single experience up until the point they write that article. The article is a snapshot of that person’s mind in time, shaped by an entire lifetime.
An AI article at the current moment in time is no such thing. It is a mimic of human experience. It takes other people’s experiences and imitates them but it has no hard fought wisdom of its own. It has no tether to reality, it has not experienced, as a consequence of it’s decision making, real pain, shame, fear, love, excitement, joy. It has only a simulated version based on artificial parameters supplied by a programmer. It does not know death and cannot die if it makes the wrong decision. It has no real stake in the game of life. That is fine if what I want is technical information to solve some mundane problem but if I want actionable life advice, if I want to feel connection, if I want to experience what it is to be another human in another snapshot in time, then no, an AI dupe absolutely isn’t fine.
I can’t even be sure if the comment I’m rebutting is real or a bot. If it’s a bot then I am being shortchanged out of my life. I am wasting precious time debating with something that has no awareness of life or death. If I continue to engage, the programmer of the bot is stealing life away from me. The best I can hope for in that scenario is that other, real people read the comment and get some kind of value out of it.
The whole thing just feels gross and I honestly feel like this might be the end of it for me and text based media. And at the rate things are developing, probably the entire internet.
It could very feasibly get to the point where there’s so much fake stuff that people don’t trust anything on the internet at all. With half the world shouting fake news we’re almost there pre-AI, let alone after it. How is anyone meant to operate in such an environment of deception? Why would anyone want to?
If you let Loki loose what you end up with is Ragnarok.